Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
June 11
Question:
What late 19th-century poetic movement was disparaged in Macmillan's Magazine as representing "a sick indifference to the things of our own time, and a spurious devotion to whatever is foreign, exotic, archaic or grotesque"?
Answer
The Pre-Raphaelites. Painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the co-founders.
June 10
Question:
What late 19th-century British poet declared, "I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living"?
Answer
Gerard Manly Hopkins. Hopkins was a Jesuit priest, and he added, "As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."
June 9
June 8
Question:
What younger poet was referred to by William Wordsworth as "decidedly the first of our living poets"?
Answer
Alfred Tennyson, who would succeed Wordsworth in the position of Poet Laureate.
June 7
Question:
Charles Baudelaire especially admired three English language poets. Lord Byron was one and Edgar Allan Poe was another. Who is the third?
Answer
Alfred Tennyson. Baudelaire held him to be a great psychologist of the post-Romantic mindscape.
