Poetry Trivia Questions

In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day.

  • April 17

    Question:

    What poet's epitaph reads, "Heroes and Kings! your distance keep: / In peace let one poor Poet sleep; / Who never flatter'd folks like you: / Let Horace blush and Virgil too"? 

    Answer ->

    Alexander Pope. Pope, who was Catholic, is buried near his villa in Twickenham. He prefaced his epitaph, "For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey."

  • April 16

    Question:

    "What poet's epitaph reads, "Life is a jest; and all things show it. / I thought so once; but now I know it"? "

    Answer ->

    John Gay.

  • April 15

    Question:

    What poet's epitaph reads, "Cast a cold eye / On life, on death. / Horseman, pass by"?

    Answer ->

    William Butler Yeats. The lines are the same that end his poem "Under Ben Bulben."

  • April 14

    Question:

    What poet's epitaph reads, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"?

    Answer ->

    John Keats.

  • April 13

    Question:

    Whose epitaph reads, "Don't Try"?

    Answer ->

    Charles Bukowski.

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