Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
October 31
Question:
What poet's excess of passionate sentiment earned her the nickname "The Floating Lady"?
Answer
Lady Izumi (or Izumi Shikibu) was nicknamed the Floating Lady. Both she and The Pillow Book author Sei Shonagon were rivals of Tale of Genji author Murasaki Shikibu.
October 30
Question:
What two poets are together known as the "Fathers of the English Sonnet"?
Answer
Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
October 29
Question:
What poet-politician, known as the "Grand Old Man," did fellow poet-politician Benjamin Disraeli re-dub "God's Only Mistake"?
Answer
October 28
Question:
Whose poem Confessio Amantis was originally dedicated to King Richard II, who had commissioned it, but was, in later editions, dedicated to his usurper King Henry IV?
Answer
October 27
Question:
What book, published in 1930 by Faber, was so well-thumbed by the sixteen-year-old Dylan Thomas that he had to tape the pages together?
Answer
W.H. Auden's first book, Poems . Auden's editor at Faber was T. S. Eliot.
