Poets and Poetry Flashcards
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Poet who used only lower case letters
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e.e. cummings
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First U.S. poet laureate
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Robert Penn Warren
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The Harlem Poet
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Langston Hughes
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Who wrote the poem Don Juan?
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Lord Byron
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Who wrote the poem Old Ironsides?
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Who wrote the poem Daffodils?
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William Wordsworth
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Who wrote the poem Bells and Pomegranates?
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Robert Browning
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Who wrote the poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
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Maya Angelou
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Who wrote the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
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Robert Browning
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Who wrote the poem To a Louse?
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Robert Burns
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Canadian Poet’s school
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School of Montreal
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Plowman Poet or The Scottish Poet
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Robert Burns
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Poet who read at JFK’s inauguration
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Robert Frost
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Who wrote the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci?
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John Keats
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Who wrote the poem To a Skylark?
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Percy Bysshe Shelly
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Who wrote the poem Annabell Lee?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Poet who read at Clinton’s inauguration
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Maya Angelou
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Mussolini friend who died in an asylum
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Ezra Pound
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Who wrote the poem John Brown’s Body?
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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Who wrote the poem The Bells?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote the poem Howl?
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Allen Ginsberg
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Who wrote the poem Idylls of the King?
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote the poem When the Frost is on the Punkin?
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James Whitcomb Riley
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Who wrote the poem Tales of Wayside Inn?
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote the poem _The Faerie Queen_?
Edmund Spencer
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Who wrote the poem _Tinturn Abbey_?
William Wordsworth
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Who wrote the poem _Little Boy Blue_?
Eugene Field
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Who wrote the poem _Ariel_?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
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Who wrote the poem _Songs of Innocence_?
William Blake
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Who wrote the poem _Mending Wall_?
Robert Frost
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Who wrote the poem _Tamberlane_?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote the poem _Ode on a Grecian Urn_?
John Keats
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Who wrote the poem _The Raven_?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote the poem _The Song of Hiawatha_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote the poem _Lady of the Lake_?
Sir Walter Scott
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Who wrote the poem _Thanatopsis_?
William Cullen Bryant
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Who wrote the poem _There Will Come Soft Rains_?
Sara Teasdale
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Number of lines in a sonnet
Fourteen
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Who wrote the poem _Jabberwocky_?
Lewis Carroll
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Who wrote the poem _O Captain My Captain_?
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote _Sonnets from the Portuguese_?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Who wrote the poem _The Arsenal at Springfield_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote the poem _I Never Saw a Moor_?
Emily Dickenson
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Who wrote the poem _Death Be Not Proud_?
John Donne
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Who wrote the poem _The Pisan Cantos_?
Ezra Pound
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Who wrote the poem _The Rape of the Lock_?
Alexander Pope
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Who wrote the poem _Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_?
Thomas Grey
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The Ode Poet
John Keats
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Welsh Poet
Dylan Thomas
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Who wrote the poem _The New Colossus_?
Emma Lazarus
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Who wrote the poem _Evangeline_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Limerick writer - 1870's
Edward Lear
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Who wrote the poem _Gunga Din_?
Rudyard Kipling
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Earliest known poem - 3rd millenium B.C. mesopotamia
_The Epic of Gilgamesh_
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Who wrote the poem _The Lake Isle at Innisfree_?
William Butler Yeats
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Lake Poet
William Wordsworth
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Who wrote the poem _The Waste Land_?
T.S. Eliot
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Who wrote the poem _To Helen_?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Edda poetry comes from this country
Iceland
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Who wrote the poem _No Man is an Island_?
John Donne
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U.S. Poet of the Beat generation
Allen Ginsberg
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"Old Possum"
T.S. Eliot
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Who wrote the poem _The Chambered Nautilus_?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Who wrote _Lyrical Ballads_?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who wrote the poem _Kubla Khan_?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who wrote the poem _Snowbound_?
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Quaker Poet
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Who wrote the poem _Leaves of Grass_?
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote the poem _Tam O' Shanter_?
Robert Burns
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Who wrote the poem _Fog_?
Carl Sandburg
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Who wrote the poem _The Road to Mandalay_?
Rudyard Kipling
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New Hampshire or New England Poet
Robert Frost
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Who wrote the poem _The Lays of Ancient Rome_?
Thomas Macaulay
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Who wrote the poem _Song of Myself_?
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote the poem _Prometheus Unbound_?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
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Who wrote the poem _My Last Duchess_?
Robert Browning
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Who wrote the poem _She Walks in Beauty_?
Lord Byron
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Who wrote the poem _A Love Letter to Her Husband_?
Anne Bradstreet
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Who wrote the poem _If_?
Rudyard Kipling
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Who wrote the poem _Auld Lang Syne_?
Robert Burns
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American Colonies first female poet
Anne Bradstreet
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Who wrote the poem _The Harp Weaver_?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Who wrote the poem _The Village Blacksmith_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote the poem _On His Blindness_?
John Milton
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Who wrote the poem _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Persian Poet (11th Century)
Omar Khayyam
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Who wrote the poem _Love Songs_?
Sara Teasdale
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Who wrote the poem _The Wreck of the Hesperus_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The Altar" Poet
George Herbert
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Who wrote the poem _The Road Not Taken_?
Robert Frost
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The Belle of Amherst
Emily Dickenson
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Who wrote the poem _A Visit From St. Nicholas_?
Clement Moore
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Who wrote the poem _Under Milkwood_?
Dylan Thomas
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Who wrote the poem _Assurance_?
Emily Dickenson
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Who wrote the poem _Casey at the Bat_?
Ernest Thayer
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Who wrote the poem _The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"A Second Johnson"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who wrote the poem _The Tyger_?
William Blake
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Who wrote _Spoon River Anthology_?
Edgar Lee Masters
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Who wrote the poem _Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry_?
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote the poem _To a Mouse_?
Robert Burns
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Who wrote the poem _Aurora Leigh_?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Who wrote the poem _America the Beautiful_?
Kathy Lee Bates
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Who wrote the poem _Pippa Passes_?
Robert Browning
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Perceval Lowell's sister
Amy Lowell
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Who wrote the poem _What's O'Clock_?
Amy Lowell
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Who wrote the poem _Strange Victory_?
Sara Teasdale
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Who wrote the poem _Ode on Melancholy_?
John Keats
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Who wrote the poem _Trees_?
Joyce Kilmer
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Who wrote the poem _The Walrus and the Carpenter_?
Lewis Carroll
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Who wrote the poem _Crossing the Bar_?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote the poem _Ode to the West Wind_?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
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Who wrote the poem _Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening_?
Robert Frost
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Who wrote the poem _Ode to a Nightengale_?
John Keats
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Limerick writer for _The New Yorker_
Ogden Nash
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Who wrote the poem _Battle Hymn of the Republic_?
Julia Ward Howe
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Who wrote the poem _Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night_?
Dylan Thomas
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Who wrote the poem _Rubaiyat_?
Omar Khayyam
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Poets buried in same Roman cemetary
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelly
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English Poet who drowned at the age of 25
John Keats
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Who wrote the poem _Endymion_?
John Keats
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Who wrote the poem _The Wild Swans at Coole_?
William Butler Yeats
