Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
August 2
Question:
What poetry book, named after a painting by the Italian mannerist painter Francesco Parmigianino, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and The National Book Critics Circle Award?
Answer
John Ashbery's Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror .
August 1
Question:
What poet acted as a consultant to the Ford motor company, suggesting names for a new line of cars?
Answer
July 31
July 30
Question:
What American Modernist poet considered the international success of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" to be "the great catastrophe to our letters"?
Answer
July 29
Question:
What famous American poet did Ernest Hemingway get into a fist fight with?
Answer
Wallace Stevens. The scuffle occurred in the Florida Keys in 1936, and it's hard to know what it was about other than both were drunk. Hemingway boasted in a letter that he: "knocked all of him down several times and gave him a good beating." He was 36 and Stevens was 56.
