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 10
Question:
How was it that Caedmon, the Anglo-Saxon author of one of the only extant pieces of Old English poetry, became a poet?
Answer
According to the Venerable Bede, Caedmon was an illiterate laborer who would flee banquets when the revelers would pass around a harp and sing. One time, having fled to the barn, he received in a dream the gift of poetry. However, this gift could only be used towards devotional poetry. As a result we have his hymns, but none of the wild lyrics sung by his co-revelers.
May 9
Question:
What American poet was described by James Russell Lowell as being "three fifths genius, two fifths fudge"?
Answer
May 8
Question:
What literary magazine was originally founded as a transcendentalist publication under the editorship of Ralph Waldo Emerson and was later revived as a modernist literary forum, the first magazine in America to publish "The Waste Land"?
Answer
The Dial .
May 7
Question:
What American poet spent twelve years in St. Elizabeths Hospital, a federally-run psychiatric hospital?
Answer
May 6
Question:
What psychiatric hospital admitted Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton?
Answer
McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts
