Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
November 11
Question:
At what poet's funeral were a prime minister and the leader of the opposition pallbearers, as well as leading literary lights?
Answer
Thomas Hardy's. The pallbearers were Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, James Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Edmond Gosse, AE Housman, and Rudyard Kipling.
November 10
Question:
Whose 1866 book Hyak nin is'shiu, or,Stanzas by a Century of Poets, Being Japanese Lyrical Odes , was a literary model for the Imagists?
Answer
Frederick Victor Dickins is responsible for the first English translation of the Hyakunin isshu , which is also known as 100 Poems by 100 Poets .
November 9
Question:
From which word was George Russell's pseudonym fashioned?
Answer
Known as AE (or Æ), Russell's pseudonym had started as "Æon," but, due to a proofreader finding the signature illegible, it was pared down.
November 8
Question:
What English novelist brought C. P. Cavafy to the attention of the English-speaking world?
Answer
E. M. Forster. He met Cavafy in Alexandria during World War I, when Forster was working for the Red Cross.
November 7
Question:
Who were Michelangelo's great love sonnets written to?
Answer
Some were written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri, a young man who remain devoted to Michelangelo until his death; some were written for Vittoria Colonna, a noblewoman and poet he met in in Rome in 1536; she also wrote sonnets to him, and this continued until her death in 1547.
