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 4
Question:
Who has been identified as Europe's first professional female writer?
Answer
Christine de Pisan developed her reputation as a writer from 1399 to 1430. Born in Venice, she worked for the king of France as an astrologer, physician and alchemist. Aphra Behn is considered one of the first English women to be a professional writer.
November 3
Question:
What contemporary poet did John Dryden compare to Sappho?
Answer
Subject of Dryden's elegy "To The Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew," Anne Killigrew is likened to Sappho.
November 2
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 1
Question:
Whose brief interest in poetry was long enough for him to become an originator of Imagism?
Answer
T. E. Hulme was a founder of Imagism, despite his Complete Poems at one point consisting of only 5 poems.
October 31
Question:
What poet's excess of passionate sentiment earned her the nickname "The Floating Lady"?
Answer
Lady Izumi (or Izumi Shikibu) was nicknamed the Floating Lady. Both she and The Pillow Book author Sei Shonagon were rivals of Tale of Genji author Murasaki Shikibu.
