Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
May 29
Question:
William Blake was arrested and put on trial. What was his crime?
Answer
Blake was arrested for making seditious utterances and "damning the king," while he was ejecting a drunken soldier from his garden. Blake was eventually acquitted, but he carried the sense of being persecuted into his later works.
May 28
Question:
With the exception of his first book, which late eighteenth century poet's works were not printed on a letter press?
Answer
William Blake. As a draftsman and engraver, Blake carved out his poems and the accompanying illustrations on printing plates.
May 27
Question:
What poets, from the earlier half of the eighteenth century, have been referred to as "proto-Romantics"?
Answer
Thomas Gray and William Collins. In contrast to the satirists who were their contemporaries, these poets wrote contemplative lyric poems in blank verse, prefiguring the works of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
May 26
Question:
What English poet, now known as second only to Shakespeare, was better known as a political pamphleteer during his lifetime?
Answer
May 25
Question:
Who was the first English poet to compile his own collected works, an act disparaged by his contemporaries because he included plays, a literary form considered unworthy of publication?
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