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People in Poetry Trivia Quiz

Here's a collection of characters, some real and some fictional, who are named in various famous poems. Name the authors.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
21,190

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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724

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Which author wrote a classic poem that expressed 'sorrow for the lost Lenore'? Hint

William Blake

Edgar Allan Poe

John Donne

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which author wrote 'To Althea, From Prison'? Hint

Andrew Marvell

Richard Lovelace

Walter De La Mare

John Masefield

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which author wrote about 'the beautiful lady without mercy'? Hint

A.E. Housman

Percy Shelley

John Keats

William Wordsworth

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which author wrote about the plight of 'Evangeline and the Acadians'? Hint

Lord Byron

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alfred LordTennyson

Rudyard Kipling

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which author wrote about 'Miniver Cheevy'? Hint

Joihn Greenleaf Whittier

Arthur Hugh Clough

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which author wrote a poem which contained the reprise: 'I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion'? Hint

Ernest Dowson

T.S. Eliot

Walt Whitman

Robert Frost

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which author wrote 'Andrea Del Sarto', about the famous Italian painter? Hint

Oscar Wilde

Emily Dickinson

Robert Browning

Elizabeth Browning

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which author wrote a series of poems 'To Julia'? Hint

Carl Sandburg

Robert Herrick

e.e. cummings

John Clare

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which author described Life as a woman in 'Madame Life's A piece in Bloom'? Hint

Robert Burns

Thomas Gray

Matthew Arnold

William Ernest Henley

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which author wrote about the death of 'Bess, the landlord's daughter'? Hint

Alexander Pope

Dylan Thomas

Alfred Noyes

Edmund Spenser

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which author wrote a classic poem that expressed 'sorrow for the lost Lenore'?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

'Nameless here for evermore'. Poe, of course, in 'The Raven'. He also wrote about women named Annabel Lee, Annie, Helen, etc.

2. Which author wrote 'To Althea, From Prison'?

Answer: Richard Lovelace

'Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage'.

3. Which author wrote about 'the beautiful lady without mercy'?

Answer: John Keats

'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'.

4. Which author wrote about the plight of 'Evangeline and the Acadians'?

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Also 'Hiawatha', 'Paul Revere, etc.

5. Which author wrote about 'Miniver Cheevy'?

Answer: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Also 'Richard Cory'.

6. Which author wrote a poem which contained the reprise: 'I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion'?

Answer: Ernest Dowson

The long Latin title is difficult, but the poem refers to 'days of wine and roses' and things 'gone with the wind'.

7. Which author wrote 'Andrea Del Sarto', about the famous Italian painter?

Answer: Robert Browning

One of his better-known works.

8. Which author wrote a series of poems 'To Julia'?

Answer: Robert Herrick

One or two are commonly noted, but there are several 'Julia' poems.

9. Which author described Life as a woman in 'Madame Life's A piece in Bloom'?

Answer: William Ernest Henley

'Madame Life's a piece in bloom, Death goes dogging everywhere, she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair'. Great imagery.

10. Which author wrote about the death of 'Bess, the landlord's daughter'?

Answer: Alfred Noyes

The poem is 'The Highwayman'. Interesting.

Source: Author robert362

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