POETS & POETRY Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| ANNABEL LEE | POE |
| ARIEL | SHELLY |
| AULD LANG SYNE | ROBERT BURNS |
| THE BELLS | POE |
| BELLS & POMEGRANATES | ROBERT BROWNING |
| CASEY AT THE BAT | ERNEST THAYER |
| THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS | OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
| THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE | TENNYSON |
| CHICAGO POEMS | SANDBURG |
| THE CONCORD HYMN | RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| CROSSING THE BAR | TENNYSON |
| DEATH BE NOT PROUD | DONNE |
| DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THE GOOD NIGHT | DYLAN THOMAS |
| ENDYMION | KEATS |
| ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD | THOMAS GREY |
| EVANGELINE | LONGFELLOW |
| THE FAERIE QUEEN | EDMUND SPENCER |
| FOG | SANDBURG |
| GUNGA DIN | KIPLING |
| HOWL | GINSBERG |
| IF | KIPLING |
| IDYLLS OF THE KING | TENNYSON |
| JABBERWOCKY | LEWIS CARROLL |
| JOHN BROWN'S BODY | STEPHEN VINCENT BENET |
| KUBLA KHAN | SAMEUL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
| LADY OF THE LAKE | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
| THE LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME | THOMAS MACAULAY |
| LEAVES OF GRASS | WHITMAN |
| LYRICAL BALLADS | WORDSWORTH |
| MENDING WALL | FROST |
| THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE | LONGFELLOW |
| THE NEW COLOSSUS | EMMA LAZARUS |
| O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN | WHITMAN |
| ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE | KEATS |
| ODE ON A GRECIAN URN | KEATS |
| ODE TO THE WEST WIND | SHELLY |
| OLD IRONSIDES | OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
| PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN | ROBERT BROWNING |
| THE PISAN CANTOS | EZRA POUND |
| THE RAPE OF THE LOCK | POPE |
| THE RAVEN | POE |
| THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER | COLERIDGE |
| THE ROAD NOT TAKEN | FROST |
| RUBAIYAT | OMAR KHAYYAM |
| SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY | BYRON |
| SNOWBOUND | WHITTIER |
| THE SONG OF HIAWATHA | LONGFELLOW |
| SONG OF MYSELF | WHITMAN |
| SONGS OF EXPERIENCE | BLAKE |
| SONGS OF INNOCENCE | BLAKE |
| SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY | EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
| STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING | FROST |
| TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN | LONGFELLOW |
| TAM O'SHANTER | ROBERT BURNS |
| THANATOPSIS | WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |
| TREES | JOYCE KILMER |
| THE TYGER | BLAKE |
| TINTURN ABBEY | WORDSWORTH |
| TO A MOUSE | ROBERT BURNS |
| TO A LOUSE | ROBERT BURNS |
| TO A SKYLARK | SHELLY |
| THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH | LONGFELLOW |
| A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS | CLEMENT MOORE |
| THE WALRUS & THE CARPENTER | LEWIS CARROLL |
| THE WASTE LAND | T.S. ELIOT |
| WHAT'S O'CLOCK? | AMY LOWELL |
| WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN | JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
| WRECK OF THE HESPERUS | LONGFELLOW |
| POET KNOWN AS "OLD POSSUM" | T.S. ELIOT |
| "ODE" POET | KEATS |
| "PLOWMAN" POET | ROBERT BURNS |
| "LAKE" POET | WORDSWORTH |
| QUAKER POET | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |
| LIMERICK WRITER, 1870S | EDWARD LEAR |
| LIMERICK WRITER FOR THE NEW YORKER | OGDEN NASH |
| "A SECOND JOHNSON" | SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
| "THE BELL OF AMHERST" | EMILY DICKINSON |
| THESE 2 POETS ARE BURIED IN THE SAME ROMAN CEMETERY... | KEATS & SHELLY |
| EDDA POETRY COUNTRY | ICELAND |
| TO HIS EXCELLENCY, GEORGE WASHINGTON | WHEATLEY |
| TO A WATERFOWL | BRYANT |
| TO HELEN | POE |
| TAMERLANE & OTHER POEMS | POE |
| THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS | LONGFELLOW |
| I HEAR AMERICA SINGING | WHITMAN |
| WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER | WHITMAN |
| WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOMED | WHITMAN |
| THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD | DICKINSON |
| I NEVER SAW A MOOR... | DICKINSON |
| THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY | DICKINSON |
| SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST | DICKINSON |
| I FELT A FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN | DICKINSON |
| BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH | DICKINSON |
| I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED | DICKINSON |
| RICHARD CORY | ROBINSON |
| MINIVER CHEEVY | ROBINSON |
| THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK | ELIOT |
| THE HOLLOW MEN | ELIOT |
| THE RED WHEELBARROW | WILLIAMS |
| FIRE & ICE | FROST |
| OUT, OUT--- | FROST |
| THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN | FROST |
| THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN | AUDEN |
| DADDY | PLATH |
| ARIEL | PLATH |
| THE NEGRO SPEAKS | LANGSTON HUGHES |
| RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS | MILLAY |
| A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES | MILLAY |
| THE HARP WEAVER & OTHER POEMS | MILLAY |
| THE DREAM KEEPER | LANGSTON HUGHES |
| "SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, LIKE THE NIGHT"... | BYRON |
| "I THINK WE ARE IN RATS' ALLEY, WHERE THE DEAD MEN LOST THEIR BONES"... | T.S. ELIOT |
| "CHAMELEONS FEED ON LIGHT AND AIR; POETS' FOOD IS LOVE AND FAME"... | SHELLEY |
| HIS 1847 POEM "ULALUME" MENTIONS "THE GHOUL-HAUNTED WOODLAND OF WEIR"... | POE |
| HIS "DIVINE COMEDY" IS 100 CANTOS WRITTEN IN TERZA RIMA... | DANTE |
| "DEATH BE NOT PROUD, THOUGH SOME HAVE CALLED THEE MIGHTY AND DREADFUL, FOR THOU ART NOT SO" | JOHN DONNE |
| "I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE!" | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE | BYRON |
| THE INITIALS W.H. IN THIS POET'S NAME STOOD FOR WYSTAN HUGH... | W.H. AUDEN |
| ROBERT FROST ENDED THIS POEM ABOUT A BARRIER WITH THE LINE "GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS" | MENDING WALL |
| "MY CANDLE BURNS AT BOTH ENDS, IT WILL NOT LAST THE NIGHT" | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
| "WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK" | RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER |
| HIS EPIC POEM "THE AENEID" BEGINS WHEN A TROJAN HERO & HIS FOLLOWERS ARE SHIPWRECKED NEAR CARTHAGE... | VIRGIL |
| HIS 1946 POEM "FERN HILL" DESCRIBES THE JOY OF VISITING A FAMILY FARM IN WALES AS A CHILD... | DYLAN THOMAS |
| ONE OF 2 BROTHERS OF NOVELIST & POET LAURA BENET WHO WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY... | STEPHEN VINCENT BENET OR WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
| "THE HOLY GRAIL" AND "GUINEVERE" ARE AMONG THE POEMS CONTAINED IN THIS TENNYSON WORK... | IDYLLS OF THE KING |
| TYPE OF CREATURE OF WHICH DICKINSON WROTE, " A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS OCCASIONALLY RIDES" ... | A SNAKE |
| IN "THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH" LONGFELLOW WROTE OF THIS "SOUNDING" OBJECT THAT THE BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER STRIKES... | AN ANVIL |
| "EYES THE SHADY NIGHT HAS SHUT CANNOT SEE THE RECORD CUT" WROTE HOUSMAN TO ONE OF THESE "DYING YOUNG"... | AN ATHLETE |
| FITTINGLY, THE LAST SECTION OF "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" IS ENTITLED THIS TYPE OF INSCRIPTION... | EPITAPH |
| HIS MASTERPIECE POEM "DON JUAN" IS DIVIDED INTO CANTOS... | BYRON |
| AROUND 600 B.C., ALCAEUS WROTE VERSE IN PRAISE OF THIS DRINK & HOW IT BRINGS OUT TRUTH... | WINE |
| RIMBAUD HAD QUITE A BIT OF TEEN ANGST, AS IN HIS BOOK TITLE "UNE SAISON EN ENFER", A SEASON HERE... | HELL |
| BRITISH ROMANTICS INCLUDED WORDSWORTH IN ENGLAND, AND, NORTH OF THE BORDER, THIS "LADY OF THE LAKE" AUTHOR... | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
| THIS BEAT POET'S FATHER WAS A TEACHER & A POET IN HIS OWN RIGHT... | ALLAN GINSBERG |
| IN 1922 THIS POET AND LINCOLN BIOGRAPHER WROTE "ROOTABAGA STORIES" TO ENTERTAIN HIS 3 DAUGHTERS... | CARL SANDBURG |
| ARCHIBALD MACLEISH'S "ARS POETICA" CONTAINS THE LINE "A POEM SHOULD NOT MEAN/BUT " THIS | BE |
| ON NEW YEAR'S EVE WE SHOULD GIVE THANKS TO THIS SCOTTISH POET FOR HIS "AULD LANG SYNE" | ROBERT BURNS |
| "THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP / BUT I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP / AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP" | ROBERT FROST |
| THE LINE "BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY" IS FROM THIS KEATS WORK... | ODE ON A GRECIAN URN |
| AMONG HIS POETRY COLLECTIONS IS 1942'S "SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM" | LANGSTON HUGHES |
| IT'S THE TITLE OF THE LONGFELLOW POEM THAT BEGINS, "UNDER THE SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE" | THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH |
| WRITTEN IN 1819, HIS "TO AUTUMN" BEGINS, "SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS"... | KEATS |
| SHORTLY AFTER WRITING "I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH", THIS WWI POET MET IT... | ALAN SEEGER |
| THOUGH BORN ON LONG ISLAND, IN HIS POETRY HE WAS "WALT WHITMAN, A KOSMOS, OF" THIS ISLAND "THE SON" | MANHATTAN |
| "A TERRIBLE BEAUTY IS BORN", THIS IRISHMAN WROTE ON EASTER, 1916... | WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
| ALTHOUGH PUBLISHED AS A SEPARTE VOLUME IN 1865, WHITMAN'S "DRUM-TAPS" WAS LATER INCLUDED IN THIS WORK... | LEAVES OF GRASS |
| IN 1945 THIS POET LAUREATE OF ILLINOIS PUBLISHED HER FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY... | GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
| HE ALSO WROTE A POEM ABOUT "THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE"... | TENNYSON |
| HE FINISHED WRITING "EVANGELINE" ON HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY... | LONGFELLOW |
| "SELDOM DOES A FIRST BOOK CONTAIN SO FEW UNSUCCESSFUL THINGS", SAID AMY LOWELL OF HIS "CHICAGO POEMS"... | CARL SANDBURG |
| "I HAVE MEASURED OUT MY LIFE WITH COFFEE SPOONS" IS A LINE FROM THIS T.S. ELIOT POEM... | THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK |
| THOUGH BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO, THE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS VERSE DEALING WITH NEW ENGLAND LIFE, AS IN "NORTH OF BOSTON"... | ROBERT FROST |
| "POPPIES GROW / BETWEEN THE CROSSES, ROW ON ROW"... | IN FLANDERS FIELDS |
| "THAT'S MY LAST DUCHESS PAINTED ON THE WALL, LOOKING AS IF SHE WERE ALIVE" | ROBERT BROWNING |
| GLORIANA IS THE TITLE CHARACTER IN THIS EPIC POEM BY EDMUND SPENCER... | THE FAERIE QUEEN |
| ROMANTIC POET WHO WROTE, "ST. AGNES'S EVE--AH, BITTER CHILL IT WAS! THE OWL, FOR ALL HIS FEATHERS, WAS A-COLD" | KEATS |
| LONGFELLOW WROTE, " TELL ME NOT" THAT "LIFE IS BUT AN EMPTY" THIS... | DREAM |
| THIS TROUBLED POET USED THE PSEUDONYM VICTORIA LUCAS... | SYLVIA PLATH |
| BYRON WROTE, "WHO KILLED" THIS POET? "I, SAYS THE QUARTERLY, SO SAVAGE AND TARTARLY; TWAS ONE OF MY FEATS" | KEATS |
| "IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND?" | SHELLEY |
| IN "NEW HAMPSHIRE" HE WROTE, "DO YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING THE MARKET, THERE ARE MORE POEMS PRODUCED THAN ANY OTHER THING?" | FROST |
| "THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK" | LEWIS CARROLL |
| AFTER HE GAVE UP WRITING NOVELS, HE PUBLISHED HIS "WESSEX POEMS" IN 1898... | THOMAS HARDY |
| SHE DESCRIBED HER 1840S POEM "A VISION OF POETS" AS "PHILOSOPHICAL, ALLEGORICAL, ANYTHING BUT POPULAR"... | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| HE WROTE HIS POEM "TO THE CUCKOO" IN AN ORCHARD IN GRASMERE... | WORDSWORTH |
| WHILE HE LIVED NEAR PISA, THIS ENGLISH POET WROTE "ODE TO THE WEST WIND" AND "TO A SKYLARK" | SHELLEY |
| POEM CONTAINING THE LINE, "PERCHED UPON A BUST OF PALLAS JUST ABOVE MY CHAMBER DOOR"... | THE RAVEN |
| THIS ROBERT FROST POEM BEGINS, "TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A YELLOW WOOD" | THE ROAD NOT TAKEN |
| IT'S THE PERSONAL 3-WORD TITLE OF THE LONGEST POEM IN WALT WHITMAN'S "LEAVES OF GRASS" | SONG OF MYSELF |
| IT'S THE SONNET WRITTEN IN 1883 THAT ENDS, "I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR" | THE NEW COLOSSUS |
| IN AN ELEGY, SHELLEY SAID THIS POET'S SOUL "LIKE A STAR, BEACONS FROM THE ABODE WHERE THE ETERNAL ARE"... | KEATS |
| "THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES IS MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE" | KIPLING |
| IN 1677 JOHN DRYDEN WROTE "ALL FOR LOVE", A PLAY ADAPTED FROM THIS SHAKESPEARE WORK... | ANTONY & CLEOPATRA |
| "THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK" ASKS, "SHALL I PART MY HAIR BEHIND? DO I DARE TO EAT" THIS FRUIT? | A PEACH |
| IN A KEATS ODE, THESE 5 WORDS IMMEDIATLEY PRECEDE "THAT IS ALL YE KNOW ON EARTH, AND ALL YE NEED TO KNOW"... | BEAUTY IS TRUTH; TRUTH BEAUTY |
| HIS "DOVER BEACH" MENTIONS THE FRENCH COAST AND THE CLIFFS OF ENGLAND... | MATTHEW ARNOLD |
| JOHN BERRYMAN'S POEM "HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET" IS A TRIBUTE TO HER... | ANNE BRADSTREET |
| SHAKESPEARE SAID OF THIS HANDSOME MYTHOLOGICAL MAN, "HUNTING HE LOV'D, BUT OVE HE LAUGH'D TO SCORN"... | ADONIS |
| BYRON'S 1814 ODE TO HIM SAYS, "NOR TILL THY FALL COULD MORTALS GUESS AMBITION'S LESS THAN LITTLENESS!" | NAPOLEON |
| "SO FAITHFUL IN LOVE, AND SO DAUNTLESS IN WAR, THERE NEVER WAS A KNIGHT LIKE" THIS SIR WALTER SCOTT POETIC HERO... | LOCHINVAR |
| "POETICS" BY THIS LYCEUM FOUNDER HAS BEEN CALLED THE SINGLE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK IN ALL OF LITERARY CRITICISM | ARISTOTLE |
| PINDAR WAS FAMOUS FOR THIS TYPE OF POEM | ODE |
| MANY GREEK AND LATIN EPIC POEMS OPEN WITH AN INVOCATION TO ONE OF THESE GODDESSES | MUSES |
| EACH LINE OF A SONNET TYPICALLY CONTAINS 5 OF THESE METRICAL FEET | IAMBS |
| AN ABECEDARIAN POEM IS MARKED BY ADHERENCE TO THIS | ALPHABET |
| KEATS' "ODE TO___": "THOU WAST NOT BORN FOR DEATH, IMMORTAL BIRD" | NIGHTINGALE |
| "A FREE BIRD LEAPS ON THE BACK OF THE WIND AND FLOATS DOWNSTREAM..." | I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS |
| "TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A YELLOW WOOD" | THE ROAD NOT TAKEN |
| "THE TREE HAS ENTERED MY HANDS, THE SAP HAS ASCENDED MY ARMS..." | A GIRL (EZRA POUND) |
| "SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY? THOU ART MORE LOVELY A ND MORE TEMPERATE..." | SONNET 18 (SHAKESPEARE) |
| "STOP ALL THE CLOCKS, CUT OFF THE TELEPHONE, PREVENT THE DOG FROM BARKING WITH JUICY BONE... | FUNERAL BLUES (W.H. AUDEN) |
| "I MET A TRAVELLER FROM AN ANCIENT LAND WHO SAID: TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE..." | OZYMANDIAS (SHELLEY) |
| "GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY, OLD TIME IS STILL A-FLYING" | TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME (ROBERT HERRICK) |
| ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, WHILE I PONDERED, WEAK AND WEARY" | THE RAVEN |
| HE IS STARK MAD, WHO EVER SAYS, THAT HE HATH BEEN IN LOVE AN HOUR... | THE BROKEN HEART (JOHN DONNE) |
| "TWAS BRILLIG, AND THE SLITHY TOVES..." | JABBERWOCKY (LEWIS CARROLL) |
| "THE OUTLOOK WASN'T BRILLIANT FOR THE MUDVILLE NINE THAT DAY..." | CASEY AT THE BAT (ERNEST THAYER) |
| "LET US GO THEN, YOU AND I, WHEN THE EVENING IS SPREAD OUT AGAINST THE SKY" | THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK |
| "I CELEBRATE MYSELF, AND SING MYSELF, AND WHAT I ASSUME YOU SHALL ASSUME..." | SONG OF MYSELF (WHITMAN) |
| "OF MAN'S FIRST DISOBEDIENCE, AND THE FRUIT OF THAT FORBIDDEN TREE WHOSE MORTAL TASTE..." | PARADISE LOST (MILTON) |
| "THE RAIN SET EARLY IN TONIGHT, THE SULLEN WIND WAS SOON AWAKE, IT TORE THE ELM-TOPS DOWN FOR SPITE..." | PORPHYRIA'S LOVER (ROBERT BROWNING) |
| "HALF A LEAGUE, HALF A LEAGUE, HALF A LEAGUE ONWARDS..." | THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (TENNYSON) |
| HE WROTE & ILLUSTRATED "SONGS OF INNOCENCE" AND "SONGS OF EXPERIENCE" | WILLIAM BLAKE |
| THIS IRISH POET "WILL ARISE AND GO NOW, AND GO TO INNISFREE, AND A SMALL CABIN BUILD THERE" | YEATS |
| THIS BRITISH POET WROTE, "WHEN I CONSIDER HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT, ERE HALF MY DAYS, IN THIS DARK WORLD AND WIDE" | MILTON |
| FOR HIS GREATEST POEM, EDMUND SPENSER INVENTED A LAND CALLED THIS AND ITS QUEENE | FAIRIE |
| THIS MATTHEW ARNOLD POEM SAYS, "ON THE FRENCH COAST THE LIGHT GLEAMS" AND "THE CLIFFS OF ENGLAND STAND GLIMMERING" | DOVER BEACH |
| THESE 11TH-13TH-C. POETS USED A FORM CALLED "LE JEU PARTI", A VERSE DEBATE ON LOVE | TROUBADORS |
| THE NAME OF THIS FRENCH POET, A SUBJECT IN VERLAINE'S "THE DAMNED POETS", SOUNDS LIKE A STALLONE ROLE | RIMBAUD |
| THE BOATHOUSE, THIS POET'S WRITING SHED IN LAUGHARNE, WALES, IS NOW A MUSEUM | DYLAN THOMAS |
| IN THE EARLY 14TH-C., HE CALLED HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK "A COMEDY" BECAUSE OF ITS SAD BEGINNING AND HAPPY ENDING | DANTE |
| HIS FATHER CAME FROM RUSSIAN NOBILITY; HIS MOTHER WAS DESCENDED FROM AN AFRICAN PRINCE | PUSHKIN |
| IN 1871, AS A DEBAUCHED, VISIONARY 16-YEAR-OLD, HE WROTE "LE BATEAU IVRE" OR "THE DRUNKEN BOAT" | ARTHUR RIMBAUD |
| THE IRISH LITERARY THEATRE OPENED IN 1899 WITH THIS CO-FOUNDER'S DRAMA "THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN" | W.B. YEATS |
| SHE POETIZED, "LIFE, BELIEVE, IS NOT A DREAM SO DARK AS SAGES SAY"; JANE EYRE COULD HAVE USED THOSE THOUGHTS | CHARLOTTE BRONTE |
| IN 1885 HE PUT OUT THE QUIET, "A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES" | ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
| IN 1899, THIS "STEPPENWOLF" AUTHOR PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK, THE POETRY COLLECTION "ROMANTIC SONGS" | HERMANN HESSE |
| "SO FAITHFUL IN LOVE, AND SO DAUNTLESS IN WAR, THERE NEVER WAS A KNIGHT LIKE..." THIS SIR WALTER SCOTT POETIC HERO | LOCHINVAR |
| ESTHER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN THIS, THE ONLY NOVEL BY ITS POET AUTHOR | THE BELL JAR |
| PART 1 OF LONGFELLOW'S "SONG OF ..." THIS MAN IS ENTITLED "THE PEACE PIPE" | HIAWATHA |
| IN 1814, SEEING A LADY IN MOURNING IN A SPANGLED DRESS, THIS LORD WROTE, "SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, LIKE THE NIGHT" | BYRON |
| HIS "DIVINE COMEDY" IS 100 CANTOS WRITTEN IN TERZA RIMA | DANTE |
| A POEM OF HERS SAYS, "I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE!" | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| THIS POET TOOK MELANCHOLY JOURNEYS LIKE THE ONES IN HIS LONG NARRATIVE POEM "CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE" | LORD BYRON |
| HIS "POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1786 IN KILMARNOCK AND SOLD 600 COPIES | BURNS |
| IN "DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS", HE WROTE, "NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, ENTIRE OF ITSELF" | JOHN DONNE |
| THIS EPIC POEM BY VIRGIL BEGINS WHEN A TROJAN HERO AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE SHIPWRECKED NEAR CARTHAGE | AENEID |
| IN 1798 HE RECEIVED AND ANNUITY FROM JOSIAH & THOMAS WEDGWOOD, AND HIS "LYRICAL BALLADS" WAS PUBLISHED | COLERIDGE |
| A GRAVESTONE AT BUNHILL FIELDS SAYS, "NEAR BY LIE THE REMAINS OF THE POET-PAINTER..." THIS MAN, "1757-1827" | WILLIAM BLAKE |
| A POEM BY THIS AMERICAN BEGINS, "WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D" | WHITMAN |
| THIS LAKE POET, PERHAPS LONELY AS A CLOUD, WANDERED OVER TO VISIT SIR WALTER SCOTT IN 1803 | WORDSWORTH |
| HIS "LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK" SAYS, "IN THE ROOM THE WOMEN COME AND GO/ TALKING OF MICHELANGELO" | T.S. ELIOT |
| RICHARD CORY, "A GENTLEMAN FROM SOLE TO CROWN" IN A POEM BY THIS MAN, "PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" | EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
| "FUNERAL BLUES" BY THIS BRITISH POET, BEGINS, "STOP ALL THE CLOCKS, CUT OFF THE TELEPHONE" | W.H. AUDEN |
| THIS POET LAUREATE'S "IM MEMORIAM" WAS AN ELEGY TO HIS FRIEND ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM | TENNEYSON |
| IN 1827 HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY A "EDGAR A. PERRY" | POE |
| IN 1900 HIS GRANDFATHER BOUGHT HIM A CHICKEN FARM NEAR DERRY, NH | FROST |
| HE WROTE, "WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE UP A DARK ALLEY WITH CAESAR BORGIA AND HE WAS COMING TORGIA" | OGDEN NASH |
| FIRST NAME OF THE PULITZER-WINNING POET WHOSE SON CHARLES WAS INVOLVED IN THE 1950S QUIZ SHOW SCANDALS | MARK (VAN DOREN) |
| HE WAS A DESCENDANT OF JOHN & PRICILLA ALDEN, WHOSE LOVE STORY HE TOLD IN AN 1858 NARRATIVE POEM | LONGFELLOW |
| POET LAUREATE ROBERT SOUTHEY WROTE THAT "CURSES ARE LIKE YOUNG CHICKENS, THEY ALWAYS COME HOME TO ..." DO THIS | ROOST |
| THIS POETRY COLLECTION HAD A FOLLOW-UP, "THE NEW SPOON RIVER" | SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY |
| IN ARABIC "RUBAI'I" REFERS TO A TYPE OF 4-LINE VERSE, AND THIS BOOK IS A BOOK OF THEM, LIKE OMAR KHAYYAM'S | A RUBAIYAT |
| IN 1923 HE PUBLISHED THE COLLECTION "NEW HAMPSHIRE" | ROBERT FROST |
| "THE LAMB" AND "THE SHEPHERD" ARE FOUND IN THESE WILLIAM BLAKE "SONGS" FROM 1789 | SONGS OF INNOCENCE |
| CRITIC HIPPOLYTE BABOU SUGGESTED THE TITLE OF BAUDELAIRE'S "LES FLEURS DU MAL", WHICH TRANSLATES AS THIS | THE FLOWERS OF EVIL |
| IN THE 78TH OF THESE SACRED POEMS, MANNA IS REFERRED TO AS "THE CORN OF HEAVEN" AND "ANGEL'S FOOD" | (BOOK OF) PSALMS |
| "PEACE" BE WITH THIS MEXICAN, WHO PUBLISHED "LUNA SILVESTRE", HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, WHEN HE WAS 19 | OCTAVIO PAZ |
| "THE DRUNKEN DRIVER HAS THE RIGHT OF WAY" IS A BOOK OF POEMS BY THIS MAN WHO PRODUCED "MILLER'S CROSSING" | ETHAN COEN |
| ONE POEM IN HER 1850 BOOK "POEMS" USES THE WORD "LOVE" 22 TIMES IN 44 LINES | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| THE COSTUMES FOR THIS LONG-RUNNING MUSICAL BASED ON T.S. ELIOT'S BOOK OF POEMS INCLUDE POINTY EARS AND TAILS | CATS |
| IN 1913 HE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS AS WELL AS "SONS AND LOVERS" | D.H. LAWRENCE |
| JOYCE KILMER'S BIG BOOK OF 1914 WAS ".... AND OTHER POEMS" | TREES |
| THIS QUINTESSENTIAL NEW ENGLANDER PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, "A BOY'S WILL", WHILE LIVING IN ENGLAND IN 1913 | ROBERT FROST |
| IT'S THE BOOK OF LOVE POEMS BY KING SOLOMON | SONG OF SONGS |
| HIS BOOK OF POEMS CALLED "DRUM-TAPS" WAS INSPIRED BY THE SUFFERING HE SAW DURING THE CIVIL WAR | WALT WHITMAN |
| THIS BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT CONSISTS OF 5 POEMS MOURING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM | LAMENTATIONS |
| IN 1998 THIS YOUNG POP STAR PUBLISHED HER POEMS IN THE BOOK "A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR" | JEWEL |
| "THE CINNAMON PEELER" IS A BOOK OF POEMS BY THIS CEYLON-BORN AUTHOR OF "THE ENGLISH PATIENT" | MICHAEL ONDAATJE |
| WHITMAN'S BOOK OF CIVIL WAR POEMS "DRUM TAPS", LATER BECAME PART OF THIS LARGER COLLECTION | LEAVES OF GRASS |
| THIS MISSISSIPPI-BORN NOVELIST PUBLISHED HIS 2ND AND LAST BOOK OF POEMS, "A GREEN BOUGH", IN 1933 | FAULKNER |
| THIS BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS BASICALLY A COLLECTION OF LOVE POEMS | SONG OF SOLOMON |
| AFTER SHE DIED IN 1886, HER SISTER LAVINIA DISCOVERED HUNDREDS OF HER POEMS IN LITTLE HANDSEWN BOOKLETS | DICKINSON |
| "I TOOK THE ONE LESS TRAVELED BY, AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE" | THE ROAD NOT TAKEN |
| "RATS! THEY FOUGHT THE DOGS, AND KILLED THE CATS, AND BIT THE BABIES IN THE CRADLES" | THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN |
| "AT LENGTH DID CROSS AN ALBATROSS, THROUGH THE FOG IT CAME" | THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER |
| WRITER WHO USED THE SAME FIRST & LAST NAMES AND WAS THE SUBJECT OF A POEM BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS | FORD MADDOX FORD |
| LAUGH ALL YOU LIKE BUT HIAWATHA'S WIFE IN A POEM BY LONGFELLOW WAS NAMED FOR THIS NIMMESOTA WATERFALL | MINNEHAHA |
| IN "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN", LITTLE EVA'S NAME IS ACTUALLY THIS, LIKE THE HEROINE OF A LONGFELLOW POEM | EVANGELINE |
| HAT NAMED AFTER THE HERO OF A 1791 POEM BY ROBERT BURNS | TAM-O-SHANTER |
| THE POEM CALLED THE "GARIBNAMEH" CONTAINS 11,000 MASNAVI, WHICH WE KNOW AS THESE RHYMED 2-LINE UNITS OF VERSE | COUPLETS |
| THE HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC'S HALL SHARES ITS NAME WITH THIS SIBELIUS TONE POEM | FINLANDIA |
| ANDREA D'AGNOLO DI FRANCESCO IS BETTER KNOWN B THIS NAME FOUND IN THE TITLE OF ROBERT BROWNING'S POEM ABOUT HIM | ANDREA DEL SARTO |
| HE WROTE THE POEM FROM WHICH PIPPA PASSES, KY TOOK ITS NAME | ROBERT BROWNING |
| THE NAME OF THIS TYPE OF POEM IS FROM THE JAPANESE FOR "STANZA" | HAIKU |
| RICHARD CORY, "A GENTLEMAN FROM SOLE TO CROWN" IN A POEM BY THIS 3-NAMED MAN, "PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" | EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
| A LONGFELLOW POEM AND A LILLIAN HELLMAN PLAY ABOUT A GIRLS' BOARDING SCHOOL SHARE THIS TIMELY NAME | THE CHILDREN'S HOUR |
| A TYPE OF HUMOROUS POEM BEARS THE NAME OF THIS IRISH PORT CITY | LIMERICK |
| THIS OHIO CITY WAS CALLED THE "QUEEN OF THE WEST" EVEN BEFORE A LONGFELLOW POEM POPULARIZED THE NICKNAME | CINCINNATI |
| USERMATRE, ONE OF RAMSES' NAMES, EVOLVED INTO THIS TITLE OF A SHELLEY POEM ABOUT A SHATTERED STATUE OF RAMSES | OZYMANDIAS |
| DEAFNESS DIDN'T STOP JOACHIM DU BELLAY'S 115 POEMS, STYLED AFTER THIS ITALIAN FOR WHOM A STYLE OF SONNET IS NAMED | PETRARCH |
| DYLAN THOMAS: "RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT" | DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT |
| WHITMAN: "DO I CONTRADICT MYSELF? VERY WELL THEN I CONTRADICT MYSELF" | SONG OF MYSELF |
| ANDREW MARVELL: "HAD WE BUT WORLD ENOUGH, AND TIME, THIS COYNESS, LADY, WERE NO CRIME" | TO HIS COY MISTRESS |
| KEATS: "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER; ITS LOVELINESS INCREASES" | ENDYMION |
| T.S.ELIOT: "LET US GO THEN, YOU AND I, WHEN THE EVENING IS SPREAD OUT AGAINST THE SKY" | THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK |
| WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WAS JUST 17 WHEN HE WROTE THIS POEM WHOSE NAME COMES FROM THE GREEK FOR "VIEW OF DEATH" | THANATOPSIS |
| ATTILA THE HUN APPEARS UNDER THE NAME ETZEL IN THIS 13TH-C. GERMAN EPIC POEM LATER ADAPTED INTO A WAGNER WORK | THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG |
| "TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS" REFERS TO THESE AS COURSERS, CALLING THEM BY NAME | REINDEER |
| IN A NONSENSE POEM, LEWIS CARROLL WARNED "BEWARE" OF THIS CREATURE, "MY SON" | THE JABBERWOCK |
| A LORD BYRON POEM INSPIRED THIS GREAT FRENCH ROMANTIC PAINTER'S "THE DEATH OF SARDANAPALUS" | DELACROIX |
| THIS SYNONYM FOR GIBBERISH COMES FROM THE NAME OF A LEWIS CARROLL POEM | JABBERWOCKY |
| A NEW HAMPSHIRE CAMP IS NAMED FOR THIS MAN IN TRIBUTE TO HIS POEM "I HEAR AMERICA SINGING" | WHITMAN |
| THE A-BOMB TEST SITE WAS NAMED THIS, AFTER THE JOHN DONNE POEM "BATTER MY HEART, THREE-PERSONED GOD" | TRINITY |
| HILDA DOOLITTLE WAS FAMOUS FOR PUBLISHING HER POEMS UNDER THIS EXTREMELY SHORT PEN NAME | H.D. |
| THIS PLAYWRIGHT, A "BLITHE SPIRIT", WROTE HIS "CHELSEA BUNS" POEMS UNDER THE PEN NAME HERNIA WHITTLEBOT | NOEL COWARD |
| THIS SONNETEER'S "CANZONIERE" CONSISTS OF 366 POEMS, MANY OF THEM LOVE LYRICS TO A MYSTERY LADY NAMED LAURA | PETRARCH |
| IN A MOCK-EPIC POEM BY BYRON, THE NAME OF THIS LEGENDARY SPANISH RAKE RHYMES WITH "NEW ONE" | DON JUAN |
| THIS WORD FOR A STREET URCHIN WHO WEARS RAGGEDY CLOTHES WAS THE NAME OF A DEMON IN THE POEM "PIERS PLOWMAN" | RAGAMUFFIN |
| THE BOOJUM TREE WAS NAMED FOR THE MYSTERIOUS MONSTER IN HIS POEM, "THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK" | LEWIS CARROLL |
| A MONKEY GOD NAMED HANUMAN APPEARS IN THE "RAMAYANA", AN EPIC POEM OF THIS COUNTRY | INDIA |
| HE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED HIS "SPOON RIVER" POEMS UNDER THE NAME "WEBSTER FORD" | EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
| FREDERICK ASHTON'S BALLET, "THE LADY OF SHALLOT" IS BASED ON THIS MAN'S POEM OF THE SAME NAME | TENNYSON |
| THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION OF POEMS DID NOT INCLUDE "THE LAST TOURNAMENT"; IT WAS ADDED IN THE 1870S | IDYLLS OF THE KING |
| WALT WHITMAN CALLED THIS "THE BEAUTIFUL UNCUT HAIR OF GRAVES" | GRASS |
| FROM THE 1795 POEM "ERIN": "NOR ONE FEELING OF VENGEANCE PRESUME TO DEFILE/ THE CAUSE, OR THE MEN, OF" THIS PLACE | THE EMERALD ISLE |
| "HE IS ALL PINE, AND I AM APPLE ORCHARD. MY APPLE TREES WILL NEVER GET ACROSS AND EAT THE CONES UNDER HIS PINES" | MENDING WALL |
| THIS REAL MAN INSPIRED A 1719 NOVEL CHARACTER AND A POEM THAT SAYS, "I AM MONARCH OF ALL I SURVEY" | ALEXANDER SELKIRK |
| "FOREVER CURSED BE THIS DESTESTED DAY, WHICH SNATCHED BY BEST, MY FAVORITE CURL AWAY" | THE RAPE OF THE LOCK |
| IN 1341 THE ROMAN SENATE CROWNED THIS SONNETEER POET LAUREATE | PETRARCH |
| IT'S A PERSON HELD IN HIGH REGARD OR AWARDED FOR GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS, LIKE CERTAIN POETS | LAUREATE |
| THIS POET WHOSE FIRST NAME WAS ALGERNON, WAS DESCRIBED AS THE "LIBIDINOUS LAUREATE OF A PACK OF SATYRS" | SWINBURNE |
| THIS AUTHOR OF 1935'S "MULATTO" WAS REFERRED TO AS "THE POET LAUREATE OF HARLEM" | LANGSTON HUGHES |
| WHEN HE BECAME BRITAIN'S POET LAUREATE IN 1968, HIS SON DANIEL WAS 10 | CECIL DAY-LEWIS |
| IN 2006 DONALD HALL, KNOWN FOR POEMS ABOUT HIS WIFE, JANE KENYON, WAS LAUDED AFTER HIS APPOINTMENT AS THIS | U.S. POET LAUREATE |
| IN 1945 THIS POET LAUREATE OF ILLINOIS PUBLISHED HER FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY, "A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE" | GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
| IN 1850 THE ATHENAEUM SUGGESTED THAT SHE SUCCEED WORDSWORTH AS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| THE USA'S FIRST POET LAUREATE, HE TAUGHT AT LSU FROM 1934-42 AND EDITED THE SOUTHERN REVIEW | ROBERT PENN WARREN |
| THE 1ST COMMISSION OF ANDREW MOTION, APPOINTED ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE IN 1999, WAS TO COMPOSE A LITTLE DITTY FOR THIS PRINCE'S WEDDING | EDWARD |
| IN 1843, 36 YEARS AFTER HE "WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD", HE WAS NAMED ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE | WORDSWORTH |
| EDWARD IS THE ACTUAL FIRST NAME OF THIS POET WHO WAS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE FROM 1984-1998 | TED HUGHES |
| IN 1852, THIS POET LAUREATE AND LORD WROTE HIS "ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON" | TENNYSON |
| POET LAUREATE OF THE U.S. FROM 1993-1995, SHE WON A 1987 PULITZER FOR "THOMAS AND BEULAH" | RITA DOVE |
| THIS POET LAUREATE'S "IN MEMORIAM" WAS AN ELEGY TO HIS FRIEND ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM | TENNYSON |
| THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO SERVE AS U.S. POET LAUREATE | RITA DOVE |
| IN 1757 THIS "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" POET REFUSED AN APPOINTMENT AS POET LAUREATE | THOMAS GRAY |
| THIS ACTOR IS THE SON OF A BRITISH POET LAUREATE AND THE SON-IN-LAW OF PLAYWRIGHT ARTHUR MILLER | DANIEL DAY-LEWIS |
| ROBERT SOUTHEY'S PORSE COLLECTION, "THE DOCTOR", FEATURED THIS URSINE NURSERY STORY | THE STORY OF THE 3 BEARS |
| JOHN DRYDEN ALSO WROTE PLAYS: HIS "ALL FOR LOVE" WAS BASED ON THIS ROMAN TALE BY SHAKESPEARE | ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA |
| HE WROTE "NOTHING CAN BRING BACK THE HOUR OF SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS, OF GLORY IN THE FLOWER" | WORDSWORTH |
| HE WAS A ROMANTIC POET, A LAKE POET, A POET LAUREATE, AND THE POET WHO PENNED "ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS" | WORDSWORTH |
| IN 1854 THIS POET LAUREATE WROTE, "INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH RODE THE SIX HUNDRED" | TENNYSON |
| ENGLAND'S FIRST POET LAUREATE, APPOINTED FOR LIFE IN 1668 | JOHN DRYDEN |
| IN 1883 QUEEN VICTORIA GAVE THIS POET LAUREATE THE TITLE "BARON OF ALDWORTH AND FRESHWATER" | TENNYSON |
| THIS BLACK POETESS WON A PULITZER PRIZE FOR "ANNIE ALLEN" | GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
| A SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT SINCE THE 1950S, IN 1998 HE BECAME THE CITY'S FIRST POET LAUREATE | LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI |
| HE WAS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE FROM 1850-1892, LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE | TENNYSON |
| IN "EUGENE ONEGIN", PUSHKIN WROTE, "NOW SOUTHWARD SWEPT THE CARAVAN OF THE WILD"...THESE, "A NOISY CLAN" | GEESE |
| PISTOL CALLS HIS WIFE "MY DUCK" AS HE KISSES HER AND GOES OFF TO WAR IN FRANCE IN THIS SHAKESPEAREAN HISTORY PLAY | HENRY V |
| "WE WILL EAT OUR MULLETS, SOUSED IN WINES", AND "SUP PHEASANTS' EGGS", THIS ELIZABETHEAN DRAMATIST WROTE IN "THE ALCHEMIST" | BEN JONSON |
| THE "NEW ENGLAND MYSTIC" | EMILY DICKINSON |
| HE PUBLISHED THE POETRY COLLECTION "NORTH OF BOSTON" | FROST |
| A FAMOUS LINE IN A JAMES WELDON JOHNSON POEM SAYS, "YOUNG MAN---YOUNG MAN---YOUR ARM'S TOO SHORT TO..." DO THIS | BOX WITH GOD |
| T.S. ELIOT DEDICATED "THE WASTE LAND" TO THIS POET & CRITIC WHO HELPED REVISE IT | EZRA POUND |
| LONGFELLOW URGED, "ENJOY THY YOUTH, IT WILL NOT STRAY, FOR OH, IT IS NOT ALWAYS" THIS MONTH | MAY |
| "NOTWITHSTANDING MANY HINTS TO THE CONTRARY", HE SAID, "I STILL MAINTAIN" CHILDE HAROLD "TO BE A FICTIOUS PERSONAGE" | BYRON |
| THE ROSSETTIS PUBLISHED POEMS IN THE GERM, A SHORT-LIVED MAGAZINE FROM THIS ARTSY GROUP | PRE-RAPHAELITES |
| HE WROTE, "MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD A RAINBOW IN THE SKY" IN THE EARLY 1800S AT GRASMERE | WORDSWORTH |
| IN A POEM IN THIS 1855 COLLECTION, THE AUTHOR INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS "WALT WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN" | LEAVES OF GRASS |
| "A JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD--AND THOU" IS A LINE FROM THIS OMAR KHAYYAM WORK | RUBAIYAT |
| SHE WROTE IN A SONNET, "FIRST TIME HE KISSED ME, HE BUT ONLY KISS'D THE FINGERS OF THIS HAND WHEREWITH I WRITE" | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| IN 1919'S "TRADITION & THE INDIVIDUAL TALENT", THIS AMERICAN-BRITISH POET SAID POETS MUST LEARN THE WORK OF THE PAST | T.S. ELIOT |
| THIS RAKISH LORD OF POETRY, BORN IN 1788, WORE ROMANTIC OPEN-NECK SHIRTS STILL POPULAR WITH POETS TODAY | BYRON |
| GEORGE HERBERT & RICHARD CRANSHAW WEREN'T KNOWN AS THE PHYSICAL POETS BUT AS THESE POETS, A SLIGHTLY LONGER TERM | METAPHYSICAL POETS |
| THE FRENCH SYMBOLIST POETS POPULARIZED THIS, A TERM WHOSE FRENCH TRANSLATION IS VERS LIBRE | FREE VERSE |
| AMONG OCCUPATIONAL SCHOOL NICKNAMES ARE THE BRANDEIS JUDGES AND THE WHITTIER THESE | POETS |
| THIS HERO WENT "FORTH UPON THE GITCHE GUMEE...WITH HIS FISHING-LINE OF CEDAR" TO CATCH A STURGEON | HIAWATHA |
| FOR WRITING THE PAMPHLET "THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM", THIS "ODE TO THE WEST WIND" POET WAS EXPELLED FROM OXFORD | SHELLEY |
| THE FIRST LINE OF THIS POEM IS "SING, GODDESS, THE ANGER OF PELEUS'S SON ACHILLES" | THE ILLIAD |
| IN 1899 THIS IRISH POET AND DRAMATIST CO-FOUNDED THE IRISH LITERARY THEATRE, WHICH LATER BECAME THE ABBEY THEATRE | YEATS |
| IN 1823 LORD BYRON PENNED, "AND, AFTER ALL, WHAT IS A LIE? 'TIS BUT" THIS "IN MASQUERADE" | THE TRUTH |
| POEM IN WHICH KEATS WROTE, "HEARD MEMORIES ARE SWEET, BUT THOSE UNHEARD ARE SWEETER" | ODE ON A GRECIAN URN |
| HE KNEW A LOT ABOUT "STONE WALLS": HE WAS IMPRISONED IN 1642 AND 1648 AND WROTE FAMOUS POEMS BOTH TIMES | RICHARD LOVELACE |
| HE WAS THE FIRST TO BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY'S POETS' CORNER | CHAUCER |
| TREES FIGURED IN MANY OF HIS POEMS, LIKE "BIRCHES", "DUST OF SNOW", AND "GOOD-BYE AND KEEP COLD" | FROST |
| "FOR THE UNION DEAD" IS A 1964 BOOK BY THIS POET WHOSE ANCESTORS CAME OVER ON THE MAYFLOWER | ROBERT LOWELL |
| IN 1995 THIS SEAMUS FROM IRELAND DETECTED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE COMING HIS WAY | SEAMUS HEANEY |
| THIS GREEK LYRIC POETESS CREATED A VERSE FORM FEATURING 3 LINES OF 11 SYLLABLES AND A FOURTH LINE OF 5 SYLLABLES | SAPPHO |
| IT COMPLETES THE ROBERT BROWNING LINE "GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN..." | ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD |
| THIS POEM BEGINS, "ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, WHILE I PONDERED WEAK AND WEARY" | THE RAVEN |
| THE POETRY OF ATTILO JOZSEF, IMMORTALIZING HIS WASHERWOMAN MOTHER, IS A MONUMENT OF THIS LANGUAGE | HUNGARIAN |
| HE WROTE "SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE" AND "SONG OF MYSELF" | WHITMAN |
| "THE CARRIAGE HELD BUT JUST OURSELVES AND IMMORTALITY" IS A FAMOUS LINE FROM A POEM BY THIS WOMAN | DICKINSON |
| IN "ENDYMION" HE WROTE, "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER" | KEATS |
| IN 1945 THIS SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY'S GABRIELA MISTRAL WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE | CHILE |
| A POEM BY POE PURPORTS TO BE THE CONFESSION OF THIS LAME ASIATIC CONQUEROR, ALSO A CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE SUBJECT | TAMERLANE |
| TAKING ITS TITLE FROM "SONG OF MYSELF", THE BOOK "CONTAINING MULTITUDES" TRACES HIS INFLUENCE ON RECENT POETRY | WHITMAN |
| HIS NONSENSE POEM "THE NEW VESTMENTS" SAYS, "HIS BUTTONS WERE JUJUBES, AND CHOCOLATE DROPS" | EDWARD LEAR |
| IN 1945 THIS POET WAS ELECTED A SENATOR IN CHILE | PABLO NERUDA |
| "ONE CALM SUMMER NIGHT" THIS CHARACTER "WENT HOME AND PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" | RICHARD COREY |
| TENNYSON'S "THE LOTUS EATERS" IS BASED ON AN EPISODE FROM THIS WORK OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE | THE ODYSSEY |
| IN AN ERNEST THAYER POEM, COONEY, BURROWS, FLYNN, AND BLAKE PRECEDED THIS MAN TO THE PLATE | CASEY |
| IN "SEA FEVER", ALL JOHN MASEFIELD ASKED FOR "IS A TALL SHIP AND A STAR TO..." DO THIS | STEER BY HER |
| THIS HARLEM RENAISSANCE POET WONDERED, "WHAT HAPPENS TO A DREAM DEFERRED?" | LANGSTON HUGHES |
| BY THE TITLE, IT'S WHAT KEATS' "LA BELLE DAME" WAS "SANS" | MERCI |
| WHITMAN'S "WHEN LILIES LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D" WAS AN ELEGY FOR THIS MAN | LINCOLN |
| SHE'S WON 2 GRAMMYS FOR ALBUMS OF HER POETRY, "ON THE PULSE OF MORNING" AND "PHENOMENAL WOMAN" | MAYA ANGELOU |
| THIS BRITISH POET SPENT THE LAST 15 YEARS OF HER LIFE AT HER VILLA IN FLORENCE, ITALY | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| THIS LEADER OF THE IMAGIST SCHOOL WAS THE SISTER OF THE FAMOUS ASTRONOMER WHO PREDICTED THE EXISTENCE OF PLUTO | AMY LOWELL |
| "THE COMING OF ARTHUR" AND "GARETH AND LYNETTE" ARE PARTS OF HIS "IDYLLS OF THE KING" | TENNYSON |
| THIS ROMANTIC POET'S NAME GAVE US AN ADJECTIVE FOR THE TYPE OF HERO HE CREATED...A BROODING YOUNG MAN | BYRON |
| "RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE" IS FOUND IN THIS LAKE POET'S 1807 "POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES" | WORDSWORTH |
| LAST NAME OF POET WYSTAN HUGH, WHO WROTE, "A POET'S HOPE: TO BE, LIKE SOME VALLEY CHEESE, LOCAL, BUT PRIZED ELSEWHERE" | W.H. AUDEN |
| THE LEAVES OF GRASS AT THIS POET'S GRAVE SURROUND A TOMB OF HIS OWN DESIGN IN HARLEIGH CEMETERY | WHITMAN |
| THIS WORD FOR THE POETIC MOVEMENT INCLUDING KEATS AND BYRON, IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN AMPHIBRACH | ROMANTIC POETS |
| HE WROTE THAT "NOTHING CAN BRING BACK THE HOUR OF SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS, OF GLORY IN THE FLOWER" | WORDSWORTH |
| PUBLISHED IN 1866, "BATTLE-PIECES" WAS HERMAN MELVILLE'S UNAPPRECIATED BOOK OF POETRY ABOUT THIS EVENT | CIVIL WAR |
| POET WHO WROTE THE IMMORTAL, "WHEN THE WORLD IN MUD-LUSCIOUS THE LITTLE LAME BALLOONMAN WHISTLES FAR AND WEE" | ee cummings |
| WITH 6 CHILDREN, THIS POET WAS WELL-EQUIPPED TO WRITE, "THE CHILDREN'S HOUR" | LONGFELLOW |
| WILLIAM O'CONNOR'S PAMPHLET IN DEFENSE OF THIS POET WAS TITLED "THE GOOD GRAY POET", HENCE HIS NICKNAME | WHITMAN |
| IN 1630 JOHN MILTON WROTE A SONNET HONORING THIS OTHER FAMOUS SONNETEER | SHAKESPEARE |
| VOLTAIRE'S MOCK HEROIC "LA PUCELLE" FEATURES THIS MEDIEVAL WARRIOR MAID | JOAN OF ARC |
| ODYSSEUS ELYTIS, A POET FROM THIS COUNTRY, WON THE 1979 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE | GREECE |
| "CROSSING THE WATER" AND "WINTER TREES" ARE 2 POSTHUMOUS COLLECTIONS BY THIS "BELL JAR" POET | PLATH |
| AT THE CALIFORNIA COLLEGE NAMED FOR JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, NO TEAM NICKNAME COULD BE FITTER | POETS |
| THIS AUTHOR OF THE POEM "DADDY" COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1963, BEFORE SHE COULD WORK OUT HER PARENTAL ISSUES | PLATH |
| HE READ ALMOST AS WELL AS HE WROTE: "DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT..." | DYLAN THOMAS |
| IN 1998 THIS YOUNG POP STAR PUBLISHED HER POEMS IN THE BOOK "A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR" | JEWEL |
| IN 1917, AT AGE 52, THIS IRISHMAN GOT MARRIED AND PUBLISHED HIS BOOK, "THE WILD SWANS OF COOLE" | YEATS |
| BEFORE WRITING POEMS LIKE "HIAWATHA", HE TAUGHT MODERN LANGUAGES AT BOWDOWIN COLLEGE | LONGFELLOW |
| A TASTY LITTLE VERSE BY ODGEN NASH SAYS, "I DON'T MIND EELS EXCEPT AS..." THESE | MEALS |
| IN THE SECOND EDITION OF "LEAVES OF GRASS", THIS PIECE WAS TITLED "POEM OF WALT WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN" | SONG OF MYSELF |
| HIS POEM "ENDYMION" BEGINS WITH THE LINE, "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER" | JOHN KEATS |
| IN 1958 T.S. ELIOT HELPED GAIN THE RELEASE OF THIS POET FROM A WASHINGTON MENTAL INSTITUTION | EZRA POUND |
| SAMUEL BUTLER RHYMED, "LOVE IS A BOY BY POETS STYLED; THEN SPARE THE ROD AND" DO THIS | SPOIL THE CHILD |
| "SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD" | SAMUEL BUTLER |
| THE WELCH EISTEDDFOD ORIGINALLY HONORED THESE MEDIEVAL POETS, BUT NOT SHAKESPEARE | BARDS |
| TYPE OF EVENT CELEBRATED BY AN "EPITHALAMION", LIKE THE ONE SPENSER WROTE ABOUT HIS OWN ELIZABETH BOYLE | WEDDING |
| TASLIMA NASRIN LEFT BANGLADESH AFTER INCURRING A 1994 ISLAMIC DEATH SENTENCE, LIKE THIS BRITISH AUTHOR | SALMAN RUSHDIE |
| IN 1811 THIS POET WAS EXPELLED FROM OXFORD FOR WRITING THE PAMPHLET "THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM" | SHELLEY |
| HE WAS ACTUALLY IN PRISON WHEN HE WROTE "TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON" | RICHARD LOVELACE |
| HE'S THE PATRON SAINT OF POETS AND OF WALES | ST. DAVID |
| "DOUBLE PERSEPHONE" WAS THE FIRST BOOK OF POETRY BY THIS CANADIAN AUTHOR OF "THE HANDMAID'S TALE" | MARGARET ATWOOD |
| "NATURE'S FIRST GREEN IS GOLD. HER HARDEST HUE TO HOLD" | FROST |
| ROBERT BURNS TOLD THIS "SWEET" RIVER TO "FLOW GENTLY...AMONG THY GREEN LEAVES" | AFTON |
| THIS "DON JUAN" POET ADOPTED A THIRD GIVEN NAME, NOEL, TO RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE FROM HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW | LORD BYRON |
| THIS 1712 POEM WAS BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF A LORD CUTTING A CURL FROM ARABELLA FERMOR'S HAIR | THE RAPE OF THE LOCK |
| WILLIAM BLAKE TELLS OF THIS ANIMAL "BURNING BRIGHT IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT" | TIGER |
| HIS CLASSIC 1946 POEM "FERN HILL" WAS INSPIRED BY A RELATIVE'S FARM IN WALES | DYALN THOMAS |
| KATHERINE ANNE PORTER COULD TELL YOU THE TITLE OF THE 1494 GERMAN POEM "DAS NARRENSCHIFF" MEANS THIS | SHIP OF FOOLS |
| EMMA LAZARUS IS BEST KNOWN FOR THIS SONNET INSCRIBED ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY'S BASE | THE NEW COLOSSUS |
| THE LAST WORK OF 15TH-C. POET CHRISTINE DE PISAN CELEBRATES THE MILITARY VICTORIES OF THIS WOMAN | JOAN OF ARC |
| IN A 1648 POEM, HE URGED RELUCTANT MAIDENS TO "GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY" | ROBERT HERRICK |
| THIS MIDWESTERN AMERICAN POET GAINED NEW FAME IN 1990 WITH "IRON JOHN: A BOOK ABOUT MEN" | ROBERT BLY |
| THIS 19TH-C. AUTHOR OF "LES FLEURS DU MAL" TRANSLATED POE'S TALES INTO FRENCH | BAUDELAIRE |
| THIS WORLD LEADER AND AUTHOR OF THE "LITTLE RED BOOK" WAS ALSO A POET | MAO TSE-TUNG |
| A SUMERIAN KING GOES ON ADVENTURES WITH HIS COMPANIAN ENKIDU, AND SEARCHES FOR IMMORTALITY AFTER THE LATTER'S DEATH | THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH |
| A CONFLICT ARISES BETWEEN ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON IN THE FINAL WEEKS OF THE TROJAN WAR | ILIAD (HOMER) |
| A GREEK HERO ENCOUNTERS MANY OBSTACLES ON HIS LONG JOURNEY HOME FROM TROY | ODYSSEY (HOMER) |
| RAMA, AN INCARNATION OF VISHNU, PURSUES THE DEMON KING RAVANA IN AN EFFORT TO REUNITE WITH HIS KIDNAPPED WIFE SITA | RAMAYANA |
| A TROJAN HERO FLEES THE BURNING OF TROY AND GOES TO ITALY, BECOMING THE ANCESTOR OF THE ROMANS | AENEID (VIRGIL) |
| A SERIES OF UNCONNECTED TRANSFORMATION STORIES CENTRAL TO THE MYTHOLOGICAL CREATION AND HISTORY OF THE WORLD | METAMORPHOSES (OVID) |
| MANY TRADITIONAL NORSE POEMS COMPILED INTO ONE VOLUME | EDDA |
| CHARLEMAGNE'S ARMY, RETREATING FROM SPAIN, IS ATTACKED AND COURAGEOUSLY FIGHTS A LOSING BATTLE AGAINST THE BASQUES | SONG OF ROLAND |
| DANTE IS GUIDED BY THE POET VIRGIL THROUGH THE 3 REALMS OF THE DEAD; HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE | DIVINE COMEDY |
| ADAM AND EVE ARE TEMPTED BY SATAN AND EXPELLED FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN | PARADISE LOST |
| VARIOUS AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS ARE COMPILED, CENTERING AROUND AN OJIBWE HERO AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS WIFE, MINIHAHA | SONG OF HIAWATHA |
| IN MARCH 2003, THIS RELIGIOUS LEADER PUBLISHED A BOOK OF POETRY CALLED "ROMAN TRIPTYCH" THAT WAS RELEASED IN ITALIAN & POLISH | JOHN PAUL II |
| HER NEXT BOOK AFTER "FEAR OF FLYING" WAS A POETRY COLLECTION, "LOVEROOT" | ERICA JONG |
| THIS GROUP'S KERRY LIVGREN WROTE "DUST IN THE WIND" AFTER READING A BOOK OF NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY | KANSAS |
| IN 1899 THIS "STEPPENWOLF" AUTHOR PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK, THE POETRY COLLECTION "ROMANTIC SONGS" | HERMANN HESSE |
| IN AN A.E. HOUSMAN BOOK OF POETRY, A TITLE LAD WAS FROM THIS PLACE | SHROPSHIRE |
| "HOWL", HIS FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, WAS PUBLISHED BY CITY LIGHTS, A BOOKSTORE OWNED BY POET LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI | GINSBERG |
| LAST NAME OF THE SISTERS WHOSE 1846 BOOK OF POETRY, PUBLISHED UNDER MALE PSEUDONYMS, SOLD 2 COPIES | BRONTE |
| THE BOOK "O HOLY COW", MAKES POETRY OF THE WORDS OF THIS NY YANKEES BROADCASTER CALLED "SCOOTER" | PHIL RIZZUTO |
| WHILE ATTENDING SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, THIS "COLOR PURPLE" AUTHOR WROTE HER FIRST BOOK OF POETRY | ALICE WALKER |
| AFFLICTED WITH CEREBRAL PALSY, CHRISTY BROWN NOT ONLY PAINTED WITH THIS APPENDAGE, HE ALSO WROTE BOOKS & POETRY | HIS LEFT FOOT |
| TAKING ITS TITLE FROM "SONG OF MYSELF", THE BOOK "CONTAINING MULTITUDES" TRACES HIS INFLUENCE ON RECENT POETRY | WHITMAN |
| POET A.E. HOUSMAN PROBABLY HADN'T BEEN TO WASHINGTON WHEN HE CALLED THIS THE "LOVELIEST OF TREES" | CHERRY TREE |
| "MALT DOES MORE THAN" THIS POET "CAN JUSTIFY GOD'S WAYS TO MAN" | JOHN MILTON |
| THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO "SHOULDER-HIGH WE BRING YOU HOME...TOWNSMAN OF A STILLER TOWN" | AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG |
| "DOUBLE PERSEPHONE" WAS THE FIRST BOOK OF POETRY BY THIS CANADIAN AUTHOR OF "THE HANDMAID'S TALE" | MARGARET ATWOOD |
| "NORTH OF BOSTON" AND "NEW HAMPSHIRE" ARE BOOKS OF POETRY BY THIS MAN | FROST |
| "CLOWN'S HOUSES" IS A BOOK OF POETRY BY THIS SISTER OF OSBERT AND SACHEVERELL SITWELL | EDITH SITWELL |
| COLERIDGE WROTE "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER" FOR A BOOK OF POETRY CO-WRITTEN WITH THIS MAN | WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
| "EAST IS EAST, AND WEST IS WEST" IS FROM THIS KIPLING WORK | GUNGA DIN |
| CHAUCER, SHAKESPEARE, AND BLAKE ARE AMONG THE POETS WHO HAVE WRITTEN THAT LOVE HAS THIS DISABLITY | IT IS BLIND |
| BRITISH AUTHOR WHO WROTE "THE TIME HAS COME' THE WALRUS SAID, 'TO TALK OF MANY THINGS..." | LEWIS CARROLL |
| CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE IN SAN FRANCISCO WAS A 1950S HANGOUT FOR THESE ITINERANT WRITERS AND POETS | "BEAT" WRITERS |
| ON FEB.12, 1959, THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH, HE ADDRESSED A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS | CARL SANDBURG |
| "IDYLLS OF THE KING" | TENNYSON |
| FOR MUCH OF THE WINTER OF 1794-95, HE SERVED AS ACTING SUPERVISOR FOR DUMFRIES, SCOTLAND | ROBERT BURNS |
| "I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD" INCLUDES HIS LINE, "A CROWD, A HOST OF GOLDEN DAFFODILS" | WORDSWORTH |
| WRITTEN IN 1811, HIS POEM, "FAREWELL TO MALTA", BEGINS, "ADIEU, YE JOYS OF LA VALETTE!" | LORD BYRON |
| HE CALLED "PROMETHEUS UNBOUND" "THE BEST THING I EVER WROTE" | SHELLEY |
| GEORGE THOMSON'S "SELECT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL SCOTTISH AIRS" CONTAINS MANY OF HIS SONGS | ROBERT BURNS |
| IN A LONGFELLOW POEM, THIS SCHOONER IS WRECKED "ON THE REEF OF NORMAN'S WOE" | HESPERUS |
| HIS 1892 WORK "BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS" INCLUDED SUCH POEMS AS "FUZZY-WUZZY" AND "DANNY DEEVER" | KIPLING |
| CHARLES BAUDELAIRE'S MASTERPIECE, "LES FLEURS DU MAL", TRANSLATES AS THESE "OF EVIL" | FLOWERS |
| SYLVIA PLATH PUBLISHED HER NOVEL, "THE BELL JAR", UNDER THIS PSEUDONYM | VICTORIA LUCAS |
| HIS COLLECTION, "THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT", CONTAINED HIS FREQUENTLY REPRINTED POEM "RICHARD CORY" | EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
| BEFORE THIS POET DIED IN 1400, HE WAS LIVING IN A HOUSE IN THE GARDEN OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY | CHAUCER |
| THE FIRST LINE OF THIS POET'S "ENDYMION" IS "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER" | KEATS |
| IN 1883 QUEEN VICTORIA GAVE THIS POET LAUREATE THE TITLE "BARON OF ALDWORTH & FRESHWATER" | TENNYSON |
| FOR 10 YEARS, THIS GREATEST OF GERMAN POETS PRACTICALLY RAN THE DUCHY OF SAXE-WEIMAR | GOETHE |
| LI PO, WHO LIVED OVER 1,000 YEARS AGO, WAS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S GREATEST POETS | CHINA |
| HE WROTE HIS OWN EPITAPH, "CAST A COLD EYE ON LIFE, ON DEATH, HORSEMAN, PASS BY!" | WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
| HE OFTEN HAD VISIONS OF ANGELS & DEAD PEOPLE; PERHAPS HE SAW A "TYGER! TYGER! BURNING BRIGHT" TOO | WILLIAM BLAKE |
| GEORGIA POET SYDNEY LANIER SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS IN A MARYLAND PRISON DURING THIS WAR | U.S. CIVIL WAR |
| IN ONE OF HIS CUTE COUPLETS HE QUIPPED, "A BIT OF TALCUM IS ALWAYS WALCUM" | OGDEN NASH |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON SPENT MUCH OF HIS LIFE IN THIS NEW ENGLAND STATE WHERE HE WAS BORN | MASSACHUSETTS |
| THIS 19TH-C. POET LAUREATE WAS THE MOST FAMOUS POET BORN IN THE LAKE DISTRICT OF ENGLAND | WORDSWORTH |
| THIS MAINE POETESS SOMETIMES WROTE UNDER THE SHORTER PEN NAME NANCY BOYD | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
| LONGFELLOW BEGAN A POEM ABOUT THIS EARLIER POET, "TUSCAN, THAT WANDEREST THROUGH THE REALMS OF GLOOM" | LORD BYRON |
| HE WROTE, "THE MASON SINGING...THE BOATMAN...THE HATTER...SINGING WHAT BELONGS TO HIM OR HER AND TO NONE ELSE" | WHITMAN |
| "I LOVE THEE FREELY, AS MEN STRIVE FOR RIGHT; I LOVE THEE PURELY, AS THEY TURN FROM PRAISE" | ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
| FIRED FROM A JOB FOR LAZINESS, HE WROTE, "I LEAN AND LOAFE AT MY EASE OBSERVING A SPEAR OF SUMMER GRASS" | WHITMAN |
| ONE OF HER POEMS SAYS, "I WAS TEN WHEN THEY BURIED YOU. AT TWENTY I TRIED TO DIE AND GET BACK, BACK, BACK, TO YOU" | SYLVIA PLATH |
| SHE WROTE, "FROM HER BEACON-HAND GLOWS WORLD-WIDE WELCOME; HER MILD EYES COMMAND THE AIR-BRIDGED HARBOR" | EMMA LAZARUS |
| THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; 2005 EXHIBIT ON HIM HAD A SECTION TITLED, "WOUND DRESSER IN THE CIVIL WAR" | WALT WHITMAN |
| IN 1812 HE BECAME A DISCIPLE & FRIEND OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER WILLIAM GODWIN, LATER HIS FATHER-IN-LAW | SHELLEY |
| IN 1998, HE BECAME SAN FRANCISCO'S FIRST POET LAUREATE | LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI |
| THIS FEMALE AMERICAN POET HAS A LINE OF HALLMARK CARDS | MAYO ANGELOU |
| THESE 2 GREAT ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS DIED WHILE STILL IN THEIR 20S, ONE IN 1821 AND ONE IN 1822 | KEATS & SHELLEY |
| MADE A BARON IN THE EARLY 1880S, HE WAS THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN ELEVATED TO THAT RANK FOR LITERARY WORK ALONE | TENNYSON |
| ONE REASON HE IS NOT BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY IS HIS EPITAPH, WHICH CONCLUDES, "CURST BE HE THAT MOVES MY BONES" | SHAKESPEARE |
| SPURNED IN LOVE, HE JOINED THE LIGHT DRAGOONS IN 1793 UNDER THE ALIAS SILAS TOMKYN COMBERBACHE | SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
| HE WAS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE FROM 1850 TO 1892, LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE | TENNYSON |
| MASSACHUSETTS CITY NAMED FOR AN INDUSTRIALIST WHOSE FAMILY INCLUDED SEVERAL POETS AND AN ASTRONOMER | LOWELL |
| POETRY WITHOUT A SET RHYTHM OR PATTERN | FREE VERSE |
| A COMPARISON THAT GIVES HUMAN QUALITIES TO AN OBJECT | PERSONIFICATION |
| A WORD THAT IMITATES A SOUND | ONOMATOPOEIA |
| A LONG POEM, USUALLY 60+ LINES | NARRATIVE POEM |
| A COMPARISON THAT MAKES ONE THING AS IF IT IS SOMETHING ELSE | METAPHOR |
| COMPARISONS BETWEEN UNRELATED THINGS OR IDEAS | FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE |
| A POET'S CHOICE OF WORDS OR ARRANGEMENTS | DICTION |
| A PAIR OF TWO RHYMING LINES WRITTEN IN THE SAME FORM | COUPLET |
| SHORT POEMS ABOUT PERSONAL FEELINGS OR EXPERIENCES | LYRIC POEM |
| ANY SENSORY IMPRESSION A POEM PRODUCES | IMAGERY |
| A LINE OR GROUP OF WORDS IN A POEM SEPARATED FROM ANOTHER GROUP OF LINES | STANZA |
| METAPHOR USING "LIKE" OR "AS" TO COMPARE THINGS | SIMILE |
| THE REPETITION OF BEGINNING SOUNDS(USUALLY CONSANANTS) IN NEIGHBORING WORDS | ALLITERATION |
| THE REPETITION OF VOWEL SOUNDS IN NEIGHBORING WORDS | ASSONANCE |
| JOHN DONNE: "AND ____ SHALL BE NO MORE:____, THOU SHALT DIE" | DEATH |
| IN ____ DID KUBLA KHAN/ A STATELY PLEASURE-DOME DECREE" (COLERIDGE) | XANADU |
| TENNYSON: TO STRIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND, AND NOT TO ____ | YIELD |
| SHELLEY: "MY NAME IS ____, KING OF KINGS/ LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR! | OZYMANDIAS |
| JOHN MASEFIELD: ...TO THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY/AND ALL I ASK IS A TALL SHIP AND A ____ TO STEER HER BY | STAR |
| FROST: THE ____ ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP./ BUT I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP | WOODS |
| MAYA ANGELOU: TUNE IS HEARD ON THE DISTANT HILL/FOR THE CAGED BIRD SINGS OF ____. | FREEDOM |
| LEWIS CARROLL: BEWARE THE JUBJUB BIRD, AND SHUN/THE FRUBIOUS ____ | BANDERSNATCH |
| W.B. YEATS: ALL CHANGED, CHANGED UTTERLY/ A TERRIBLE ____ IS BORN | BEAUTY |
| SHAKESPEARE: SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?/ THOU ART MORE LOVELY, AND MORE ____ | TEMPERATE |
| DYLAN THOMAS: OLD AGE SHOULD BURN AND RAVE AT CLOSE OF DAY/ ____,____ AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT | RAGE,RAGE |
| GINSBERG: I SAW THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION DESTROYED BY/ ____, STARVING HYSTERICAL NAKED, | MADNESS |
| RICHARD LOVELACE: I COULD NOT LOVE THEE DEAR, SO MUCH/ LOVED I NOT ____ MORE | HONOUR |
| DICKINSON: "____ IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS/ THAT PERCHES IN THE SOUL | HOPE |
| LANGSTON HUGHES: MAYBE IT JUST SAGS/ LIKE A HEAVY LOAD/ OR DOES IT____? | EXPLODE |
| G.M.HOPKINS: GLORY BE TO GOD FOR ____ THINGS/FOR SKIES OF COUPLE-COLOUR AS A BRINDED COW | DAPPLED |
| JOHN MCCRAE: IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE ____ GROW/ BETWEEN THE CROSSES ROW ON ROW | POPPIES |
| SHEL SILVERSTEIN: FOR THE CHILDREN, THEY MARK, AND THE CHILDREN, THEY KNOW/ THE PLACE WHERE THE ____ ENDS | SIDEWALK |
| BLAKE: TILL WE HAVE BUILT ____/ IN ENGLAND'S GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND. | JERUSALEM |
| WHITMAN: DO I ____ MYSELF?/ VERY WELL THEN, I ____ MYSELF,/ (I AM LARGE, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES) | CONTRADICT |
| "THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL" | OSCAR WILDE |
| "IN FLANDER'S FIELDS" | JOHN MCCRAE |
| "FERN HILL" | DYLAN THOMAS |
| "BURNT NORTON" | T.S. ELIOT |
| "LONDON, 1802" | WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
| "CONCORD HYMN" | RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| "EL DORADO" | POE |
| "HARLEM" | LANGSTON HUGHES |
| "A SHROPSHIRE LAD" | A.E. HOUSMAN |
| "THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST" | WALLACE STEVENS |
| "CHICAGO" | CARL SANDBURG |
| "DOVER BEACH" | MATTHEW ARNOLD |
| "ENGLAND IN 1819" | SHELLEY |
| "I HEAR AMERICA SINGING" | WALT WHITMAN |
| "THE DEFENSE OF FORT MCHENRY" | FRANCIS SCOTT KEY |
| "SAILING TO BYZANTIUM" | WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
| "ANNIE ALLEN" | GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
| "WE REAL COOL" | GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
| NIKKI GIOVANI'S BOOK "LOVE POEMS" WAS WRITTEN IN MEMORY OF THIS RAPPER | TUPAC SHAKUR |
| "THOMAS AND BEULAH" | RITA DOVE |
| "THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH" | RITA DOVE |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" COMMISSIONED HER TO WRITE AN INAUGURAL POEM FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA | NIKKI GIOVANNI |
| 2011 U.S. POET LAUREATE | PHILIP LEVINE |
| THIS BRITISH POET LAUREATE WROTE "RINGS" FOR THE ROYAL WEDDING OF WILLIAM & KATE MIDDLETON | CAROL ANN DUFFY |
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