Poetry Trivia Questions

In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day.

April 16

Question:

"What poet's epitaph reads, "Life is a jest; and all things show it. / I thought so once; but now I know it"? "

Answer

John Gay.
April 15

Question:

What poet's epitaph reads, "Cast a cold eye / On life, on death. / Horseman, pass by"?

Answer

William Butler Yeats. The lines are the same that end his poem "Under Ben Bulben."
April 14

Question:

What poet's epitaph reads, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"?

Answer

John Keats.
April 13

Question:

Whose epitaph reads, "Don't Try"?

Answer

Charles Bukowski.
April 12

Question:

Whose epitaph reads, "I am all for the short and merry life"?

Answer

Edward FitzGerald, famous for translating the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam .

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