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Historic Poets Quiz

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What is the name of the Modernist poet who is known for his famous collection The Wasteland and his specific poems like "The Naming of Cats"?
T. S. Elliot
E. E. Cummings
William Wordsworth
Robert E. Howard

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What is the name of the poet known for her works like "And I Still Rise" and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Nikki Giovanni
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison

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What is the name of the poet who wrote the extended classic poem The Divine Comedy?
Sophocles
Homer
Dante
Virgil

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What is the name of the American poet known for her natural style and for such works as "Because I Could not Stop for Death" and "I'm nobody! Who are you?"?
Flannery O'Connor
Louisa Burton
Agatha Christie
Emily Dickinson

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What is the name of the Modernist poet who wrote such famous works as "In a Station of a Metro" and "The Seafarer"?
Antonin Grieg
Ezra Pound
Alexander Pope
Charles Bukowski

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What is the name of the Russian poet who is known for his poetry collection My Sister, Life as well as the poems that he included in his ground-breaking novel Doctor Zhivago?
Fritz Gardner
Boris Pasternak
Castor Bellis
Anton Chekhov

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What is the name of the American poet known for his dialectic poetry as well as works like "We Wear the Mask"?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Anthony Paul Seemly
Isaac O'Neil
Edward Price Logan

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What is the name of the poet who won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection Love Songs and is largely known for her famous poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?
Sara Teasdale
Helena Bogart
Jane Crichton
Virginia Woolf

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What is the name of the Chilean poet and politician who wrote such works as "Finale" and "I Remember You as You Were"?
Gabriel Monteban
Andreas Larrain
Pablo Neruda
Reamont Alldale

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What is the name of the legendary Greek poet who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Homer
Sappho
Virgil
Fidus

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What is the name of the poet who wrote the ground-breaking works "Song of Myself" and "O, Captain! My Captain!"?
Guy de Maupassant
Bertrum Holmhold
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman

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What is the name of the poet who wrote such children's poems as "Invitation" and "Homework Machine"?
Gerald Barry
Dr. Seuss
Shel Silverstein
Ollie Oxenfrie

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What is the name of the Modernist poet known for his disregard of punctuation and his specific poems like "next to of course god america i" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
Ezra Pound
E. E. Cummings
William Wordsworth
William Carlos Williams

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What is the name of the famous English poet and playwright of the Elizabethan Era who wrote such poems as "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"?
Alexander Pope
Irving Fleischer
Robert Blake
William Shakespeare

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Rabindranath Tagore is the acclaimed poet behind such works as "Last Curtain" "Freedom" and "Leave This" What country does Tagore hail from?
Pakistan
Indonesia
India
Nepal

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What is the name of the poet behind such works as "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy"?
G. K. Chesterton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charles Bukowski
Edwin Arlington Robinson

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What is the name of the Harlem Renaissance "Busboy
Poet" behind such poems as "Mother to Son" and "I, too, Sing America"?
W. H. Auden
Vachel Lindsey
Langston Hughes
Timothy Goodell

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What is the name of the Irish poet who wrote such works as "The Second Coming" and "When You Are Old"?
George Bernard Shaw
Charles Bukowski
W. B. Yeats
I. C. McKinley

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What is the name of the Swiss poet famous for his works like "Steppenwolf" and "Siddhartha"?
Georges Ladislow
Jean-Michelle Klimpt
Henry David Thoreau
Hermann Hesse

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What is the name of the American poet known for his natural and emotional works such as "The Road not Taken" and "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?
Edgar Lee Masters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
W. H. Auden
Robert Frost

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What is the name of the famous British poet who wrote such works as "The Pelican" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?
Anthony Underwood
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bradley M. Worcestershire
Dwight Warden

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The poet Basho is considered the master of the style of poetry called haiku. What country did Basho and haiku poetry hail from?
Japan
Korea
Mongolia
China

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What poet is known for his poetry with dark twists as exemplified by his works "My Last Duchess" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"?
Robert Browning
Weldon Fields
George Orwell
Richard Keene

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What is the name of the American poet known for such works as "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Arrow and the Song"?
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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What is the name of the poet who wrote the masterpiece collection The Spoon River Anthology?
Historic Poets Quiz
Avi
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Lee Masters
Gilbert De Lanka

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What is the name of the renowned English poet who wrote such works as "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Daffodils"?
William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert Marlowe

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What is the name of the English poet responsible for the masterworks "Ozymandias" and "Mutability"?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Calvin Unger
John Locke
John Milton

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What is the name of the German-American writer behind such works as "Bluebird" and "The Laughing Heart"?
Nolon Fitz-Jordan
Charles Bukowski
Geska Rian
Intar Olrickson

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What is the name of the American poet who wrote such works as "Kidnapped," "And I Have You," and "Choices"?
Alice Walker
Nikki Giovanni
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston

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What American poet wrote such works as "The Bell" and "Give All to Love"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Dorrance Belgar
Herman Melville

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