Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
June 22
Question:
Of which poet did T.S. Eliot suggest that "[to write like him] is equivalent to ignoring the whole of science subsequent to Erasmus Darwin?"
Answer
William Wordsworth. Wordsworth was an admirer of Erasmus Darwin, a poet in his own right.
June 21
Question:
What poem did Ezra Pound publish in 1916, just as the bloody Somme offensive got underway?
Answer
"In a Station of the Metro." The poem, a classic of Imagism, seems strangely out of context for the year in which it was written.
June 20
Question:
What poet's death by disease, aboard a troopship in 1915, prompted Winston Churchill to write, "The thoughts to which he gave expression . . . will be shared by many thousands of young men moving resolutely and blithely forward into this, the hardest, the cruelest, and the least-rewarded of all the wars that men have fought"?
Answer
June 19
Question:
What two poets were among the founding members of the occult organization "The Dublin Hermetic Society"?
Answer
W.B. Yeats and George Russell (known by his pseudonym 'Æ').
June 18
Question:
What artistic movement, epitomized by Oscar Wilde, was satirized in the Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan operetta Patience ?
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