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
Welsh Poet
Dylan Thomas
Who wrote the poem The New Colossus?
Emma Lazarus
Who wrote the poem Evangeline?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Limerick writer - 1870’s
Edward Lear
Who wrote the poem Gunga Din?
Rudyard Kipling
Earliest known poem - 3rd millenium B.C. mesopotamia
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Who wrote the poem The Lake Isle at Innisfree?
William Butler Yeats
Lake Poet
William Wordsworth
Who wrote the poem The Waste Land?
T.S. Eliot
Who wrote the poem To Helen?
Edgar Allen Poe
Edda poetry comes from this country
Iceland
Who wrote the poem No Man is an Island?
John Donne
U.S. Poet of the Beat generation
Allen Ginsberg
“Old Possum”
T.S. Eliot
Who wrote the poem The Chambered Nautilus?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who wrote Lyrical Ballads?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote the poem Kubla Khan?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote the poem Snowbound?
John Greenleaf Whittier
Quaker Poet
John Greenleaf Whittier
Who wrote the poem Leaves of Grass?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote the poem Tam O’ Shanter?
Robert Burns
Who wrote the poem Fog?
Carl Sandburg
Who wrote the poem The Road to Mandalay?
Rudyard Kipling
New Hampshire or New England Poet
Robert Frost
Who wrote the poem The Lays of Ancient Rome?
Thomas Macaulay
Who wrote the poem Song of Myself?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote the poem Prometheus Unbound?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Who wrote the poem My Last Duchess?
Robert Browning
Who wrote the poem She Walks in Beauty?
Lord Byron
Who wrote the poem A Love Letter to Her Husband?
Anne Bradstreet
Who wrote the poem If?
Rudyard Kipling
Who wrote the poem Auld Lang Syne?
Robert Burns
American Colonies first female poet
Anne Bradstreet
Who wrote the poem The Harp Weaver?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who wrote the poem The Village Blacksmith?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who wrote the poem On His Blindness?
John Milton
Who wrote the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Persian Poet (11th Century)
Omar Khayyam
Who wrote the poem Love Songs?
Sara Teasdale
Who wrote the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The Altar” Poet
George Herbert
Who wrote the poem The Road Not Taken?
Robert Frost
The Belle of Amherst
Emily Dickenson
Who wrote the poem A Visit From St. Nicholas?
Clement Moore
Who wrote the poem Under Milkwood?
Dylan Thomas
Who wrote the poem Assurance?
Emily Dickenson
Who wrote the poem Casey at the Bat?
Ernest Thayer
Who wrote the poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A Second Johnson”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote the poem The Tyger?
William Blake
Who wrote Spoon River Anthology?
Edgar Lee Masters
Who wrote the poem Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote the poem To a Mouse?
Robert Burns
Who wrote the poem Aurora Leigh?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who wrote the poem America the Beautiful?
Kathy Lee Bates
Who wrote the poem Pippa Passes?
Robert Browning
Perceval Lowell’s sister
Amy Lowell
Who wrote the poem What’s O’Clock?
Amy Lowell
Who wrote the poem Strange Victory?
Sara Teasdale
Who wrote the poem Ode on Melancholy?
John Keats
Who wrote the poem Trees?
Joyce Kilmer
Who wrote the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter?
Lewis Carroll
Who wrote the poem Crossing the Bar?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who wrote the poem Ode to the West Wind?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Who wrote the poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening?
Robert Frost
Who wrote the poem Ode to a Nightengale?
John Keats
Limerick writer for The New Yorker
Ogden Nash
Who wrote the poem Battle Hymn of the Republic?
Julia Ward Howe
Who wrote the poem Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night?
Dylan Thomas
Who wrote the poem Rubaiyat?
Omar Khayyam
Poets buried in same Roman cemetary
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelly
English Poet who drowned at the age of 25
John Keats
Who wrote the poem Endymion?
John Keats
Who wrote the poem The Wild Swans at Coole?
William Butler Yeats
