Poets & Poetry TriviaJulia Ward Howe’s visit to the Army of the Potomac in 1861 inspired this famous hymnShow AnswerAnswer: “The Battle Hymn Of The Republic”
Poets & Poetry TriviaIrving Babbitt, Geo. Santayana & Bertrand Russell were among this Prufrock poet’s teachers at HarvardShow AnswerAnswer: Eliot
Poets & Poetry TriviaIn Eugene Field’s “Dutch Lullabye”, the names of the 3 wooden shoe sailorsShow AnswerAnswer: Wynken, Blynken, & Nod
Poets & Poetry TriviaCarroll wrote about the Jabberwock & he wrote of the JumbliesShow AnswerAnswer: (Edward) Lear
Poets & Poetry TriviaOne of two Elizabethans famous for “Come live with me and be my love”Show AnswerAnswer: Marlowe (or John Donne)
Poets & Poetry TriviaPercy Shelley wrote his lyrical drama “Hellas” in this city, known for its leaning towerShow AnswerAnswer: Pisa
Poets & Poetry TriviaIn 1922 this Illinois poet published a collection called “Slabs of the Sunburnt West”Show AnswerAnswer: Carl Sandburg
Poets & Poetry TriviaThis lord’s 1879 poem “The Defence of Lucknow” concerns the Sepoy RebellionShow AnswerAnswer: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poets & Poetry TriviaWilliam Wordsworth’s poem about this Haitian begins “Toussaint, the most unhappy Man of Men!”Show AnswerAnswer: Toussaint L’Ouverture
Poets & Poetry TriviaShe wrote “The Rhyme of the Duchess May” & her husband wrote “My Last Duchess”Show AnswerAnswer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poets & Poetry TriviaIt begins, “It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day”Show AnswerAnswer: “Casey at the Bat”
Poets & Poetry TriviaHis poem, “Highland Mary”, was inspired by Mary Campbell, to whom he was engagedShow AnswerAnswer: Burns
Poets & Poetry TriviaHe included an unflattering description of himself in one of “The Canterbury Tales”Show AnswerAnswer: Chaucer
Poets & Poetry TriviaIn 1823 Shelley was buried in the same Rome cemetery where this poet had been buried 2 years earlierShow AnswerAnswer: Keats
Poets & Poetry TriviaThis British poet of “Gunga Din” penned the phrase “East is East, and West is West”Show AnswerAnswer: (Rudyard) Kipling