Poets and Poetry Flashcards
Poet who used only lower case letters
e.e. cummings
First U.S. poet laureate
Robert Penn Warren
The Harlem Poet
Langston Hughes
Who wrote the poem Don Juan?
Lord Byron
Who wrote the poem Old Ironsides?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who wrote the poem Daffodils?
William Wordsworth
Who wrote the poem Bells and Pomegranates?
Robert Browning
Who wrote the poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Maya Angelou
Who wrote the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Robert Browning
Who wrote the poem To a Louse?
Robert Burns
Canadian Poet’s school
School of Montreal
Plowman Poet or The Scottish Poet
Robert Burns
Poet who read at JFK’s inauguration
Robert Frost
Who wrote the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci?
John Keats
Who wrote the poem To a Skylark?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Who wrote the poem Annabell Lee?
Edgar Allen Poe
Poet who read at Clinton’s inauguration
Maya Angelou
Mussolini friend who died in an asylum
Ezra Pound
Who wrote the poem John Brown’s Body?
Stephen Vincent Benet
Who wrote the poem The Bells?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote the poem Howl?
Allen Ginsberg
Who wrote the poem Idylls of the King?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who wrote the poem When the Frost is on the Punkin?
James Whitcomb Riley
Who wrote the poem Tales of Wayside Inn?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who wrote the poem The Faerie Queen?
Edmund Spencer
Who wrote the poem Tinturn Abbey?
William Wordsworth
Who wrote the poem Little Boy Blue?
Eugene Field
Who wrote the poem Ariel?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Who wrote the poem Songs of Innocence?
William Blake
Who wrote the poem Mending Wall?
Robert Frost
Who wrote the poem Tamberlane?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn?
John Keats
Who wrote the poem The Raven?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote the poem The Song of Hiawatha?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who wrote the poem Lady of the Lake?
Sir Walter Scott
Who wrote the poem Thanatopsis?
William Cullen Bryant
Who wrote the poem There Will Come Soft Rains?
Sara Teasdale
Number of lines in a sonnet
Fourteen
Who wrote the poem Jabberwocky?
Lewis Carroll
Who wrote the poem O Captain My Captain?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who wrote the poem The Arsenal at Springfield?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who wrote the poem I Never Saw a Moor?
Emily Dickenson
Who wrote the poem Death Be Not Proud?
John Donne
Who wrote the poem The Pisan Cantos?
Ezra Pound
Who wrote the poem The Rape of the Lock?
Alexander Pope
Who wrote the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
Thomas Grey
The Ode Poet
John Keats
