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 1

    Question:

    What New England Puritan and occasional poet called Homer "one of the greatest apostles the devil ever had in the world"?

    Answer ->

    Cotton Mather

  • June 30

    Question:

    What Northern Irish poet wrote, "Ulster was British, but with no rights on / The English lyric"?

    Answer ->

    Seamus Heaney

  • June 29

    Question:

    What American poet, born in Idaho, infamously broadcasted anti-American propaganda from Italy during the World War II?

    Answer ->

    Ezra Pound

  • June 28

    Question:

    What punk-rock singer and guitarist of the 1970s band Television took his stage name from a French Symbolist poet?

    Answer ->

    Tom Verlaine took his name from Paul Verlaine.

  • June 27

    Question:

    What singer/songwriter famously wrote the verse "Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower"?

    Answer ->

    Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot are mentioned in Bob Dylan's song "Desolation Row."

Columbia University Press