Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day.
December 8
Question:
Who, despite being practically silenced by the cool reception of her 1916 book, did Thomas Hardy dub "far and away the best living woman poet alive"?
Answer
December 7
Question:
What American Modernist poet acted as a personal secretary to W.B. Yeats?
Answer
Ezra Pound. Among his friends Pound was known for his imitations of Yeats' brogue.
December 6
Question:
What mid-century Anglo-American poet was described by critic C. H. Sisson as "the pedagogue or doctor advising others what truth is"?
Answer
December 5
Question:
What 1955 movie features a poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti?
Answer
Rossetti's "Remember Me" provides a key clue for Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's film noir, Kiss Me Deadly
December 4
Question:
Who wrote comical Latin, Greek and medieval French versions of the popular poems of his day and then would claim the originals were the plagiarisms?
Answer
"Father Prout" (Francis Sylvester Mahony) played a number of these types of erudite jokes involving notions of authorship and translation.
