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 28

    Question:

    What American poet was the son of the financier Charles E. Merrill, founder of Merrill-Lynch?

    Answer ->

    James Merrill

  • July 27

    Question:

    What African-American Modernist poet was named poet laureate of Liberia in 1947?

    Answer ->

    Melvin B. Tolson

  • July 26

    Question:

    What Anglo-American poet described himself as "a minor Atlantic Goethe"?

    Answer ->

    W.H. Auden

  • 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?

    Answer ->

    Robert Penn Warren

  • 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"?

    Answer ->

    Robert Lowell. Compare his For the Union Dead with Tate's Ode to the Confederate Dead.

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