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 31
Question:
To whom is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Dejection: an Ode" addressed?
Answer
Sara Huchinson, William Wordsworth's sister-in-law. Coleridgewas hopelessly in love with her for some ten years. "Dejection: an Ode" was originally a letter in verse to her.
May 30
Question:
What English poet was the illustrator of the 2nd edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's book for children, Original Stories from Real Life ?
Answer
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.
