Poetry Trivia Questions

In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day.

  • November 22

    Question:

    Whose journal did Beatrix Potter, author of Peter Rabbit , discover in a barn in 1931 and subsequently have published?

    Answer ->

    The journals of Dorothy Wordsworth were unpublished until 1933.

  • November 21

    Question:

    Which French Enlightenment writer's sometimes manic style and radical thoughts are said to have been fueled by drinking upwards of 50 cups of coffee a day?

    Answer ->

    Voltaire

  • November 20

    Question:

    For whom did philosopher (and heir to a steel fortune) Ludwig Wittgenstein provide a stipend so that he might focus on his poetry?

    Answer ->

    Georg Trakl was the recipient of the anonymous stipend.

  • November 19

    Question:

    Whom did Erasmus Darwin identify as "the inventress of epic elegy"?

    Answer ->

    Anna Seward. She was also known as "The Swan of Lichfield" during her lifetime.

  • November 18

    Question:

    Famously misattributed to Plato (by General MacArthur among others), the quote "Only the dead have seen an end to war" was actually written by whom?

    Answer ->

    George Santayana wrote this in Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies published in 1922.

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