Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day.
June 15
Question:
What book of French poetry prompted Algernon Swinburne to write, "a poet's business is presumably to write good verse, and by no means to redeem the age and remold society," inaugurating the "art for art's sake" movement in Britain?
Answer
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (or The Flowers of Evil ).
June 14
Question:
What famously flamboyant poet wrote of his life as a closeted homosexual: "And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, / None knew so well as I: / For he who lives more lives than one / More deaths than one must die"?
Answer
June 13
Question:
What British Poet coined the now often referenced phrase "The White Man's Burden" as part of a justification for Imperialism?
Answer
June 12
Question:
Two poets of the British Isles are referred to simply as "The Bard." One is English, one is Scottish. Who are they?
Answer
William Shakespeare and Robert Burns are from England and Scotland respectively.
June 11
Question:
What late 19th-century poetic movement was disparaged in Macmillan's Magazine as representing "a sick indifference to the things of our own time, and a spurious devotion to whatever is foreign, exotic, archaic or grotesque"?
Answer
The Pre-Raphaelites. Painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the co-founders.
