Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
October 24
Question:
On what poet did Cecil Day Lewis initially base the character Nigel Strangeways, the detective of his crime novels?
Answer
Writing under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, Day Lewis initially based the character on W. H. Auden, however he later made the character less extravagant.
October 23
Question:
What American poet invented a poetic form, based on Japanese forms, that consisted of a single stanza with lines of 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 syllables successively?
Answer
Adelaide Crapsey called this form a "cinquain." She also is credited with codifying the rhymed epigram couplet.
October 22
Question:
What three poets produced the literary review L'étudiant Noir (The Black Student),a forerunner of the Négritude movement?
Answer
October 21
Question:
Which poet was older when he died, Stephen Crane or Hart Crane?
Answer
Stephen Cranewas only 28 years old when he died. Hart Crane lived to be 33 years old
October 20
Question:
Who thought William Dean Howells, whose book review had brought him to national fame, had "done [. . .] irrevocable harm in the dictum he laid down regarding my dialect verse"?
Answer
Paul Laurence Dunbar felt Howells' review of Majors and Minors had limited his audience's interest in his work to popularize the use of dialect in poetry.
