Quiz  /  Poets and Poetry of Great Britain Quiz

  • 1. 
    What Modernist poet wrote Lunar Baedeker?

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Mina Loy
  • Carol Ann Duffy
  • Gertrude Stein

  • 2. 
    Whose book The Hunting of the Snark has been called the longest and best-sustained nonsense poem in the English language?

  • Hilaire Belloc’s
  • Lewis Carroll’s
  • Edward Lear’s
  • Jane Austen’s

  • 3. 
    Who or what is the speaker in the poem “The Dream of the Rood”?

  • the cross of Jesus Christ
  • the rod with which Moses parted the Red Sea
  • John the Baptist
  • Mary, the mother of Jesus

  • 4. 
    Which of these is a collection of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth?

  • Lyrical Ballads
  • Prometheus Unbound
  • Alfoxden Journal
  • Goblin Market and Other Poems

  • 5. 
    Which Romantic poet was deeply interested in politics and argued in the critical essay A Defence of Poetry that poets are “the unacknowledged legislators of the world”?

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • William Wordsworth
  • John Keats

  • 6. 
    Which poet wrote these lines: “If I should die, think only this of me: / That there’s some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England”?

  • Tracy K. Smith
  • Rupert Brooke
  • Siegfried Sassoon
  • Vita Sackville-West

  • 7. 
    What poet collaborated with the composer William Walton on the entertainment Façade?

  • Edith Sitwell
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • Mo Yan

  • 8. 
    Who wrote the words “The grave’s a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace” in a poem urging his mistress to seize the day?

  • Richard Steele
  • George Etherege
  • John Dryden
  • Andrew Marvell

  • 9. 
    Who wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost?

  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • John Milton
  • Alexander Pope
  • Edmund Spenser

  • 10. 
    Which English poet and playwright was imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1654?

  • Colley Cibber
  • Thomas Betterton
  • Thomas Doggett
  • Sir William Davenant
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