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 26
July 25
Question:
What twentieth-century Southern poet advocated permanent racial segregation earlier in his career, but renounced it later in life and published a book of interviews with African American leaders, including Martin Luther King and Malcolm X?
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July 24
Question:
What prominent mid-twentieth century American poet moved to Nashville to study with Allen Tate, describing himself on arrival as having a "head . . . full of Miltonic, vaguely piratical ambitions. My only anchor was a suitcase, heavy with bad poetry"?
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Robert Lowell. Compare his For the Union Dead with Tate's Ode to the Confederate Dead.
July 23
Question:
What American poet stopped writing poetry in 1927, only 7 years after starting?
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John Crowe Ransom. According to his friend Robert Penn Warren, Ransom turned to him one day and said, "I'm gonna quit writing poetry."
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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