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1
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What is “Beowulf”?

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An Anglo-Saxon poem

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What does the “Beowulf” poem tell of?

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Beowulf - it’s hero

Battles against monsters

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Name two poems written in the Middle Ages

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Canterbury Tales - Chaucer

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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What is the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” about?

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One of the knights at the court of King Arthur

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What is a sonnet?

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A poem that must be 14 lines long

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Who wrote “Paradise Lost”?

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John Milton

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What inspired John Milton to write “Paradise Lost”?

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His religious views

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True or False: William Shakespeare wrote poems

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True

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What inspired William Wordsworth’s poems?

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Nature

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What inspired Sir Walter Scott’s poems?

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Scotland

Traditional stories/songs from the borders of Scotland/England

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Did Sir Walter Scott write novels?

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Yes - many of which were set in Scotland

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12
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In what century was poetry very popular?

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19th century

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List famous poets of the 19th century?

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Blake, William 
Browning, Robert and Elizabeth 
Byron, Lord
Keats, John
Shelley, Percy 
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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Name 2 poets who wrote about their experience of the 1st World War

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Wilfred Owen

Siegfried Sassoon

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Name contemporary poets?

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Sir Walter de la Mare
Sir John Betjeman
John Masefield
Ted Hughes

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Where are some of the best known poets buried or commemorated?

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Poet’s corner

in Westminster Abbey

17
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Who wrote the line “Oh, to be in England now that April’s there…”?

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Robert Browning

Home Thoughts from abroad

18
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Who wrote “Home Thoughts from abroad”?

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Robert Browning

19
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Who wrote “She walks in beauty, like the night…”?

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Lord Byron

She Walks in Beauty

20
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Who wrote “She Walks in Beauty”?

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Lord Byron

21
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Who wrote “I wonder’d lonely as a cloud…”?

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William Wordsworth

The Daffodils

22
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Who wrote “The Daffodils”?

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William Wordsworth

23
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Who wrote “Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright…”?

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William Blake

The Tyger

24
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Who wrote “The Tyger”?

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William Blake

25
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Who wrote “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?…”?

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Wilfred Owen

Anthem for Doomed Youth

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Who wrote “Anthem for Doomed Youth”?

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Wilfred Owen

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