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 7
Question:
What magazine was said to have killed John Keats with its review?
Answer
The Quarterly Review . An unfavorable review of Endymion appeared there shortly before Keats's death of tuberculosis. Byron quipped that the review had killed him (jibing at Keats's famous sensitivity) and wrote this parody of the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin? in a letter to his friend John Murray:"Who Kill'd John Keats?"
April 6
Question:
What magazine drew the ire of a young Lord Byron, provoking him to write the poem which would make him famous?
Answer
The Edinburgh Review . A sharp review of Byron's first book Hours of Idleness provoked the poet to write the satirical "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."
April 5
Question:
What poet said of Jesus Christ, "He is the only God . . . And so am I and so are you"?
Answer
April 4
Question:
What situation provoked William Blake to compare himself to Adam and his wife to Eve?
Answer
A friend stumbled upon Blake and his wife, Catherine, while they were in their Lambeth garden reciting John Milton's Paradise Lost , naked. "Come in!" Blake cried. "It's only Adam and Eve, you know!"
April 3
Question:
Which two poets can be considered to have begun the English tradition of "the poetry of nature," championed by William Wordsworth in the famous "Preface affixed to Lyrical Ballads"?
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