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 5
Question:
What poet said of Jesus Christ, "He is the only God . . . And so am I and so are you"?
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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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April 2
Question:
Who was honored in both John Keats' "Endymion" and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Adonais" (which also memorializes Keats)?
Answer
Thomas Chatterton. Chatterton attributed his "medieval" poems to "Thomas Rowley." The attribution was taken seriously for a brief time. Though highly prolific and about to embark upon what could have been a meteoric literary career, Chatterton committed suicide at the age of 17.
April 1
Question:
What two famous satirical imitations of classic authors were published on the same day in May 1738 by Samuel Johnsonand Alexander Pope?
Answer
Johnson's "London: a poem, in imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal" and Pope's "1738, a Dialogue something like Horace."
