Poets and Poetry Flashcards
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Who wrote the poem No Man is an Island?
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John Donne
2
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Who wrote the poem John Brown’s Body?
A
Stephen Vincent Benet
3
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Who wrote the poem Kubla Khan?
A
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who wrote the poem Lady of the Lake?
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Sir Walter Scott
5
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Who wrote the poem The Lake Isle at Innisfree?
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William Butler Yeats
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Who wrote the poem The Lays of Ancient Rome?
A
Thomas Macaulay
7
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Who wrote the poem Leaves of Grass?
A
Walt Whitman
8
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Who wrote the poem Little Boy Blue?
A
Eugene Field
9
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Who wrote the poem A Love Letter to Her Husband?
A
Anne Bradstreet
10
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Who wrote the poem Love Songs?
A
Sara Teasdale
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Who wrote Lyrical Ballads?
A
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12
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Who wrote the poem Mending Wall?
A
Robert Frost
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Who wrote the poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere?
A
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
A
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
15
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Who wrote the poem The New Colossus?
A
Emma Lazarus
16
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Who wrote the poem I Never Saw a Moor?
A
Emily Dickenson
17
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Who wrote the poem O Captain My Captain?
A
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote the poem Ode to a Nightengale?
A
John Keats
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Who wrote the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn?
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John Keats
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Who wrote the poem Ode on Melancholy?
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John Keats
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Who wrote the poem Ode to the West Wind?
A
Percy Bysshe Shelly
22
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Who wrote the poem Old Ironsides?
A
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Who wrote the poem On His Blindness?
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John Milton
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Who wrote the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
A
Robert Browning
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Who wrote the poem _Pippa Passes_?
Robert Browning
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Who wrote the poem _The Pisan Cantos_?
Ezra Pound
27
Who wrote the poem _Prometheus Unbound_?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
28
Who wrote the poem _The Rape of the Lock_?
Alexander Pope
29
Who wrote the poem _America the Beautiful_?
Kathy Lee Bates
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Who wrote the poem _My Last Duchess_?
Robert Browning
31
Who wrote the poem _Death Be Not Proud_?
John Donne
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Who wrote the poem _Annabell Lee_?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote the poem _Ariel_?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
34
Who wrote the poem _Assurance_?
Emily Dickenson
35
Who wrote the poem _The Arsenal at Springfield_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
36
Who wrote the poem _Auld Lang Syne_?
Robert Burns
37
Who wrote the poem _Aurora Leigh_?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
38
Who wrote the poem _Battle Hymn of the Republic_?
Julia Ward Howe
39
Who wrote the poem _La Belle Dame Sans Merci_?
John Keats
40
Who wrote the poem _The Bells_?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote the poem _Bells and Pomegranates_?
Robert Browning
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Who wrote the poem _Casey at the Bat_?
Ernest Thayer
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Who wrote the poem _The Chambered Nautilus_?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
44
Who wrote the poem _Crossing the Bar_?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
45
Who wrote the poem _Jabberwocky_?
Lewis Carroll
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Who wrote the poem _The Faerie Queen_?
Edmund Spencer
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Who wrote the poem _The Road Not Taken_?
Robert Frost
48
Who wrote the poem _I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_?
Maya Angelou
49
Who wrote the poem _If_?
Rudyard Kipling
50
Who wrote the poem _Howl_?
Allen Ginsberg
51
Who wrote the poem _The Harp Weaver_?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
52
Who wrote the poem _Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry_?
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote the poem _Fog_?
Carl Sandburg
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Who wrote the poem _Daffodils_?
William Wordsworth
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Who wrote the poem _Evangeline_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote the poem _Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_?
Thomas Grey
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Who wrote the poem _Endymion_?
John Keats
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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 _Don Juan_?
Lord Byron
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Who wrote the poem _Idylls of the King_?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Who wrote the poem _Gunga Din_?
Rudyard Kipling
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Limerick writer for _The New Yorker_
Ogden Nash
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Who wrote the poem _The Wreck of the Hesperus_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
64
Earliest known poem - 3rd millenium B.C. mesopotamia
_The Epic of Gilgamesh_
65
Persian Poet (11th Century)
Omar Khayyam
66
"A Second Johnson"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
67
"Old Possum"
T.S. Eliot
68
American Colonies first female poet
Anne Bradstreet
69
The Ode Poet
John Keats
70
Plowman Poet or The Scottish Poet
Robert Burns
71
Lake Poet
William Wordsworth
72
Mussolini friend who died in an asylum
Ezra Pound
73
New Hampshire or New England Poet
Robert Frost
74
Quaker Poet
John Greenleaf Whittier
75
Who wrote the poem _The Raven_?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Limerick writer - 1870's
Edward Lear
77
Who wrote the poem _What's O'Clock_?
Amy Lowell
78
The Harlem Poet
Langston Hughes
79
"The Altar" Poet
George Herbert
80
The Belle of Amherst
Emily Dickenson
81
U.S. Poet of the Beat generation
Allen Ginsberg
82
Poet who read at JFK's inauguration
Robert Frost
83
Poet who read at Clinton's inauguration
Maya Angelou
84
Perceval Lowell's sister
Amy Lowell
85
Poet who used only lower case letters
e.e. cummings
86
English Poet who drowned at the age of 25
John Keats
87
First U.S. poet laureate
Robert Penn Warren
88
Poets buried in same Roman cemetary
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelly
89
Canadian Poet's school
School of Montreal
90
Number of lines in a sonnet
Fourteen
91
Welsh Poet
Dylan Thomas
92
Who wrote the poem _There Will Come Soft Rains_?
Sara Teasdale
93
Who wrote the poem _The Road to Mandalay_?
Rudyard Kipling
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Who wrote the poem _Rubaiyat_?
Omar Khayyam
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Who wrote the poem _She Walks in Beauty_?
Lord Byron
96
Who wrote the poem _Snowbound_?
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Who wrote the poem _The Song of Hiawatha_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who wrote the poem _Song of Myself_?
Walt Whitman
99
Who wrote the poem _Songs of Innocence_?
William Blake
100
Who wrote _Sonnets from the Portuguese_?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
101
Who wrote _Spoon River Anthology_?
Edgar Lee Masters
102
Who wrote the poem _Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening_?
Robert Frost
103
Who wrote the poem _Strange Victory_?
Sara Teasdale
104
Who wrote the poem _Tales of Wayside Inn_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
105
Who wrote the poem _Tamberlane_?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote the poem _The Wild Swans at Coole_?
William Butler Yeats
107
Who wrote the poem _To Helen_?
Edgar Allen Poe
108
Edda poetry comes from this country
Iceland
109
Who wrote the poem _The Waste Land_?
T.S. Eliot
110
Who wrote the poem _The Walrus and the Carpenter_?
Lewis Carroll
111
Who wrote the poem _A Visit From St. Nicholas_?
Clement Moore
112
Who wrote the poem _The Village Blacksmith_?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
113
Who wrote the poem _Tam O' Shanter_?
Robert Burns
114
Who wrote the poem _The Tyger_?
William Blake
115
Who wrote the poem _Thanatopsis_?
William Cullen Bryant
116
Who wrote the poem _To a Skylark_?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
117
Who wrote the poem _To a Louse_?
Robert Burns
118
Who wrote the poem _To a Mouse_?
Robert Burns
119
Who wrote the poem _Tinturn Abbey_?
William Wordsworth
120
Who wrote the poem _Trees_?
Joyce Kilmer
121
Who wrote the poem _When the Frost is on the Punkin_?
James Whitcomb Riley
122
Who wrote the poem _Under Milkwood_?
Dylan Thomas
