Poets & Poetry Trivia Questions and Answers - TriviaQA

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Julia Ward Howe’s visit to the Army of the Potomac in 1861 inspired this famous hymn

Answer: “The Battle Hymn Of The Republic”

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Irving Babbitt, Geo. Santayana & Bertrand Russell were among this Prufrock poet’s teachers at Harvard

Answer: Eliot

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In Eugene Field’s “Dutch Lullabye”, the names of the 3 wooden shoe sailors

Answer: Wynken, Blynken, & Nod

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Carroll wrote about the Jabberwock & he wrote of the Jumblies

Answer: (Edward) Lear

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One of two Elizabethans famous for “Come live with me and be my love”

Answer: Marlowe (or John Donne)

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Percy Shelley wrote his lyrical drama “Hellas” in this city, known for its leaning tower

Answer: Pisa

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In 1922 this Illinois poet published a collection called “Slabs of the Sunburnt West”

Answer: Carl Sandburg

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This lord’s 1879 poem “The Defence of Lucknow” concerns the Sepoy Rebellion

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

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William Wordsworth’s poem about this Haitian begins “Toussaint, the most unhappy Man of Men!”

Answer: Toussaint L’Ouverture

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She wrote “The Rhyme of the Duchess May” & her husband wrote “My Last Duchess”

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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It begins, “It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day”

Answer: “Casey at the Bat”

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His poem, “Highland Mary”, was inspired by Mary Campbell, to whom he was engaged

Answer: Burns

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He included an unflattering description of himself in one of “The Canterbury Tales”

Answer: Chaucer

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In 1823 Shelley was buried in the same Rome cemetery where this poet had been buried 2 years earlier

Answer: Keats

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This British poet of “Gunga Din” penned the phrase “East is East, and West is West”

Answer: (Rudyard) Kipling