Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
July 22
Question:
What poet wrote the novel All the King's Men , detailing the rise and fall of the Louisiana politician Huey Long?
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July 21
Question:
Which poet critic initially praised Hart Crane as "one of the small group of contemporary masters" in a review in Poetry Magazine , only to write of Crane in a later review, "the flaws in Mr. Crane's genius are, I believe, so great as to partake, if they persist, almost of the nature of public catastrophe"?
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Yvor Winters. Crane blamed Winters' later review of his long poem "The Bridge," for the poem's lack of success. The two, who had been friends and correspondents, never spoke again.
July 20
Question:
What famous Southern novelist's first foray into the world of letters was a book of poems named after Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun ?
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July 19
Question:
What two famous American Modernist poets were classmates and fencing opponents at the University of Pennsylvania?
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July 18
Question:
What twentieth century American poet is famous for walking home two miles from work everyday, drawing inspiration for his poems from the walk?
Answer
Wallace Stevens. He never learned to drive.
