Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
October 26
Question:
What poet's failed business venture involved the breeding of civet-cats for perfume?
Answer
Among his many unsuccessful business ventures, which included a wholesale hosiery business and a brief stint as a brick manufacturer, Daniel Defoe undertook the cornering of the civet-cat market.
October 25
Question:
Whom did Edgar Allan Poe call "One of the least intolerable of the school of Boston transcendentalists"?
Answer
October 24
Question:
On what poet did Cecil Day Lewis initially base the character Nigel Strangeways, the detective of his crime novels?
Answer
Writing under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, Day Lewis initially based the character on W. H. Auden, however he later made the character less extravagant.
October 23
Question:
What American poet invented a poetic form, based on Japanese forms, that consisted of a single stanza with lines of 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 syllables successively?
Answer
Adelaide Crapsey called this form a "cinquain." She also is credited with codifying the rhymed epigram couplet.
October 22
Question:
What three poets produced the literary review L'étudiant Noir (The Black Student),a forerunner of the Négritude movement?
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