Quiz  /  10 British Poets: A Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who is considered the national poet of Scotland?

  • Dorothy Wordsworth
  • David Hume
  • Robert Burns
  • Lord Byron

  • 2. 
    Which of these poets lost his sight toward the end of his literary career?

  • Edmund Spenser
  • John Milton
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • 3. 
    Which poet wrote The Farmer’s Bride and was admired by Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, and Thomas Hardy, among others?

  • Sara Teasdale
  • Charlotte Mew
  • Edith Sitwell
  • Edgar Allan Poe

  • 4. 
    Which poem by John Gower runs to some 33,000 lines?

  • In Praise of Peace
  • Troilus and Criseyde
  • Speculum meditantis
  • Confessio amantis

  • 5. 
    Who introduced into England the styles and metres of the Italian humanist poets, including the sonnet form?

  • Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey
  • William Shakespeare
  • John Milton
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • 6. 
    Which of these poets wrote the poem Don Juan?

  • Robert Browning
  • William Wordsworth
  • Lord Byron
  • Carol Ann Duffy

  • 7. 
    What poet and Latin scholar wrote A Shropshire Lad?

  • W.H. Auden
  • A.E. Housman
  • Denise Levertov
  • Anna Seward

  • 8. 
    Which poet was the husband of the author of Frankenstein?

  • William Godwin
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Leigh Hunt
  • Lord Byron

  • 9. 
    Which of these poets rose to fame with “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard”?

  • Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  • Emily Brontë
  • Thomas Gray
  • John Gay
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