Question |
Answer |
ANNABEL LEE |
POE |
ARIEL |
SHELLY |
AULD LANG SYNE |
ROBERT BURNS |
THE BELLS |
POE |
BELLS & POMEGRANATES |
ROBERT BROWNING |
CASEY AT THE BAT |
ERNEST THAYER |
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE |
TENNYSON |
CHICAGO POEMS |
SANDBURG |
THE CONCORD HYMN |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
CROSSING THE BAR |
TENNYSON |
DEATH BE NOT PROUD |
DONNE |
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THE GOOD NIGHT |
DYLAN THOMAS |
ENDYMION |
KEATS |
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD |
THOMAS GREY |
EVANGELINE |
LONGFELLOW |
THE FAERIE QUEEN |
EDMUND SPENCER |
FOG |
SANDBURG |
GUNGA DIN |
KIPLING |
HOWL |
GINSBERG |
IF |
KIPLING |
IDYLLS OF THE KING |
TENNYSON |
JABBERWOCKY |
LEWIS CARROLL |
JOHN BROWN'S BODY |
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET |
KUBLA KHAN |
SAMEUL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
LADY OF THE LAKE |
SIR WALTER SCOTT |
THE LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME |
THOMAS MACAULAY |
LEAVES OF GRASS |
WHITMAN |
LYRICAL BALLADS |
WORDSWORTH |
MENDING WALL |
FROST |
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE |
LONGFELLOW |
THE NEW COLOSSUS |
EMMA LAZARUS |
O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN |
WHITMAN |
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE |
KEATS |
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN |
KEATS |
ODE TO THE WEST WIND |
SHELLY |
OLD IRONSIDES |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN |
ROBERT BROWNING |
THE PISAN CANTOS |
EZRA POUND |
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK |
POPE |
THE RAVEN |
POE |
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER |
COLERIDGE |
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN |
FROST |
RUBAIYAT |
OMAR KHAYYAM |
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY |
BYRON |
SNOWBOUND |
WHITTIER |
THE SONG OF HIAWATHA |
LONGFELLOW |
SONG OF MYSELF |
WHITMAN |
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE |
BLAKE |
SONGS OF INNOCENCE |
BLAKE |
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY |
EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING |
FROST |
TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN |
LONGFELLOW |
TAM O'SHANTER |
ROBERT BURNS |
THANATOPSIS |
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |
TREES |
JOYCE KILMER |
THE TYGER |
BLAKE |
TINTURN ABBEY |
WORDSWORTH |
TO A MOUSE |
ROBERT BURNS |
TO A LOUSE |
ROBERT BURNS |
TO A SKYLARK |
SHELLY |
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH |
LONGFELLOW |
A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS |
CLEMENT MOORE |
THE WALRUS & THE CARPENTER |
LEWIS CARROLL |
THE WASTE LAND |
T.S. ELIOT |
WHAT'S O'CLOCK? |
AMY LOWELL |
WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN |
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
WRECK OF THE HESPERUS |
LONGFELLOW |
POET KNOWN AS "OLD POSSUM" |
T.S. ELIOT |
"ODE" POET |
KEATS |
"PLOWMAN" POET |
ROBERT BURNS |
"LAKE" POET |
WORDSWORTH |
QUAKER POET |
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |
LIMERICK WRITER, 1870S |
EDWARD LEAR |
LIMERICK WRITER FOR THE NEW YORKER |
OGDEN NASH |
"A SECOND JOHNSON" |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
"THE BELL OF AMHERST" |
EMILY DICKINSON |
THESE 2 POETS ARE BURIED IN THE SAME ROMAN CEMETERY… |
KEATS & SHELLY |
EDDA POETRY COUNTRY |
ICELAND |
TO HIS EXCELLENCY, GEORGE WASHINGTON |
WHEATLEY |
TO A WATERFOWL |
BRYANT |
TO HELEN |
POE |
TAMERLANE & OTHER POEMS |
POE |
THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS |
LONGFELLOW |
I HEAR AMERICA SINGING |
WHITMAN |
WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER |
WHITMAN |
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOMED |
WHITMAN |
THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD |
DICKINSON |
I NEVER SAW A MOOR… |
DICKINSON |
THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY |
DICKINSON |
SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST |
DICKINSON |
I FELT A FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN |
DICKINSON |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH |
DICKINSON |
I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED |
DICKINSON |
RICHARD CORY |
ROBINSON |
MINIVER CHEEVY |
ROBINSON |
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK |
ELIOT |
THE HOLLOW MEN |
ELIOT |
THE RED WHEELBARROW |
WILLIAMS |
FIRE & ICE |
FROST |
OUT, OUT— |
FROST |
THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN |
FROST |
THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN |
AUDEN |
DADDY |
PLATH |
ARIEL |
PLATH |
THE NEGRO SPEAKS |
LANGSTON HUGHES |
RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS |
MILLAY |
A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES |
MILLAY |
THE HARP WEAVER & OTHER POEMS |
MILLAY |
THE DREAM KEEPER |
LANGSTON HUGHES |
"SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, LIKE THE NIGHT"… |
BYRON |
"I THINK WE ARE IN RATS' ALLEY, WHERE THE DEAD MEN LOST THEIR BONES"… |
T.S. ELIOT |
"CHAMELEONS FEED ON LIGHT AND AIR; POETS' FOOD IS LOVE AND FAME"… |
SHELLEY |
HIS 1847 POEM "ULALUME" MENTIONS "THE GHOUL-HAUNTED WOODLAND OF WEIR"… |
POE |
HIS "DIVINE COMEDY" IS 100 CANTOS WRITTEN IN TERZA RIMA… |
DANTE |
"DEATH BE NOT PROUD, THOUGH SOME HAVE CALLED THEE MIGHTY AND DREADFUL, FOR THOU ART NOT SO" |
JOHN DONNE |
"I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE!" |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE |
BYRON |
THE INITIALS W.H. IN THIS POET'S NAME STOOD FOR WYSTAN HUGH… |
W.H. AUDEN |
ROBERT FROST ENDED THIS POEM ABOUT A BARRIER WITH THE LINE "GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS" |
MENDING WALL |
"MY CANDLE BURNS AT BOTH ENDS, IT WILL NOT LAST THE NIGHT" |
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
"WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK" |
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER |
HIS EPIC POEM "THE AENEID" BEGINS WHEN A TROJAN HERO & HIS FOLLOWERS ARE SHIPWRECKED NEAR CARTHAGE… |
VIRGIL |
HIS 1946 POEM "FERN HILL" DESCRIBES THE JOY OF VISITING A FAMILY FARM IN WALES AS A CHILD… |
DYLAN THOMAS |
ONE OF 2 BROTHERS OF NOVELIST & POET LAURA BENET WHO WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY… |
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET OR WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
"THE HOLY GRAIL" AND "GUINEVERE" ARE AMONG THE POEMS CONTAINED IN THIS TENNYSON WORK… |
IDYLLS OF THE KING |
TYPE OF CREATURE OF WHICH DICKINSON WROTE, " A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS OCCASIONALLY RIDES" … |
A SNAKE |
IN "THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH" LONGFELLOW WROTE OF THIS "SOUNDING" OBJECT THAT THE BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER STRIKES… |
AN ANVIL |
"EYES THE SHADY NIGHT HAS SHUT CANNOT SEE THE RECORD CUT" WROTE HOUSMAN TO ONE OF THESE "DYING YOUNG"… |
AN ATHLETE |
FITTINGLY, THE LAST SECTION OF "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" IS ENTITLED THIS TYPE OF INSCRIPTION… |
EPITAPH |
HIS MASTERPIECE POEM "DON JUAN" IS DIVIDED INTO CANTOS… |
BYRON |
AROUND 600 B.C., ALCAEUS WROTE VERSE IN PRAISE OF THIS DRINK & HOW IT BRINGS OUT TRUTH… |
WINE |
RIMBAUD HAD QUITE A BIT OF TEEN ANGST, AS IN HIS BOOK TITLE "UNE SAISON EN ENFER", A SEASON HERE… |
HELL |
BRITISH ROMANTICS INCLUDED WORDSWORTH IN ENGLAND, AND, NORTH OF THE BORDER, THIS "LADY OF THE LAKE" AUTHOR… |
SIR WALTER SCOTT |
THIS BEAT POET'S FATHER WAS A TEACHER & A POET IN HIS OWN RIGHT… |
ALLAN GINSBERG |
IN 1922 THIS POET AND LINCOLN BIOGRAPHER WROTE "ROOTABAGA STORIES" TO ENTERTAIN HIS 3 DAUGHTERS… |
CARL SANDBURG |
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH'S "ARS POETICA" CONTAINS THE LINE "A POEM SHOULD NOT MEAN/BUT " THIS |
BE |
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE WE SHOULD GIVE THANKS TO THIS SCOTTISH POET FOR HIS "AULD LANG SYNE" |
ROBERT BURNS |
"THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP / BUT I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP / AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP" |
ROBERT FROST |
THE LINE "BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY" IS FROM THIS KEATS WORK… |
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN |
AMONG HIS POETRY COLLECTIONS IS 1942'S "SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM" |
LANGSTON HUGHES |
IT'S THE TITLE OF THE LONGFELLOW POEM THAT BEGINS, "UNDER THE SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE" |
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH |
WRITTEN IN 1819, HIS "TO AUTUMN" BEGINS, "SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS"… |
KEATS |
SHORTLY AFTER WRITING "I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH", THIS WWI POET MET IT… |
ALAN SEEGER |
THOUGH BORN ON LONG ISLAND, IN HIS POETRY HE WAS "WALT WHITMAN, A KOSMOS, OF" THIS ISLAND "THE SON" |
MANHATTAN |
"A TERRIBLE BEAUTY IS BORN", THIS IRISHMAN WROTE ON EASTER, 1916… |
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
ALTHOUGH PUBLISHED AS A SEPARTE VOLUME IN 1865, WHITMAN'S "DRUM-TAPS" WAS LATER INCLUDED IN THIS WORK… |
LEAVES OF GRASS |
IN 1945 THIS POET LAUREATE OF ILLINOIS PUBLISHED HER FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY… |
GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
HE ALSO WROTE A POEM ABOUT "THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE"… |
TENNYSON |
HE FINISHED WRITING "EVANGELINE" ON HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY… |
LONGFELLOW |
"SELDOM DOES A FIRST BOOK CONTAIN SO FEW UNSUCCESSFUL THINGS", SAID AMY LOWELL OF HIS "CHICAGO POEMS"… |
CARL SANDBURG |
"I HAVE MEASURED OUT MY LIFE WITH COFFEE SPOONS" IS A LINE FROM THIS T.S. ELIOT POEM… |
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK |
THOUGH BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO, THE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS VERSE DEALING WITH NEW ENGLAND LIFE, AS IN "NORTH OF BOSTON"… |
ROBERT FROST |
"POPPIES GROW / BETWEEN THE CROSSES, ROW ON ROW"… |
IN FLANDERS FIELDS |
"THAT'S MY LAST DUCHESS PAINTED ON THE WALL, LOOKING AS IF SHE WERE ALIVE" |
ROBERT BROWNING |
GLORIANA IS THE TITLE CHARACTER IN THIS EPIC POEM BY EDMUND SPENCER… |
THE FAERIE QUEEN |
ROMANTIC POET WHO WROTE, "ST. AGNES'S EVE–AH, BITTER CHILL IT WAS! THE OWL, FOR ALL HIS FEATHERS, WAS A-COLD" |
KEATS |
LONGFELLOW WROTE, " TELL ME NOT" THAT "LIFE IS BUT AN EMPTY" THIS… |
DREAM |
THIS TROUBLED POET USED THE PSEUDONYM VICTORIA LUCAS… |
SYLVIA PLATH |
BYRON WROTE, "WHO KILLED" THIS POET? "I, SAYS THE QUARTERLY, SO SAVAGE AND TARTARLY; TWAS ONE OF MY FEATS" |
KEATS |
"IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND?" |
SHELLEY |
IN "NEW HAMPSHIRE" HE WROTE, "DO YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING THE MARKET, THERE ARE MORE POEMS PRODUCED THAN ANY OTHER THING?" |
FROST |
"THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK" |
LEWIS CARROLL |
AFTER HE GAVE UP WRITING NOVELS, HE PUBLISHED HIS "WESSEX POEMS" IN 1898… |
THOMAS HARDY |
SHE DESCRIBED HER 1840S POEM "A VISION OF POETS" AS "PHILOSOPHICAL, ALLEGORICAL, ANYTHING BUT POPULAR"… |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
HE WROTE HIS POEM "TO THE CUCKOO" IN AN ORCHARD IN GRASMERE… |
WORDSWORTH |
WHILE HE LIVED NEAR PISA, THIS ENGLISH POET WROTE "ODE TO THE WEST WIND" AND "TO A SKYLARK" |
SHELLEY |
POEM CONTAINING THE LINE, "PERCHED UPON A BUST OF PALLAS JUST ABOVE MY CHAMBER DOOR"… |
THE RAVEN |
THIS ROBERT FROST POEM BEGINS, "TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A YELLOW WOOD" |
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN |
IT'S THE PERSONAL 3-WORD TITLE OF THE LONGEST POEM IN WALT WHITMAN'S "LEAVES OF GRASS" |
SONG OF MYSELF |
IT'S THE SONNET WRITTEN IN 1883 THAT ENDS, "I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR" |
THE NEW COLOSSUS |
IN AN ELEGY, SHELLEY SAID THIS POET'S SOUL "LIKE A STAR, BEACONS FROM THE ABODE WHERE THE ETERNAL ARE"… |
KEATS |
"THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES IS MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE" |
KIPLING |
IN 1677 JOHN DRYDEN WROTE "ALL FOR LOVE", A PLAY ADAPTED FROM THIS SHAKESPEARE WORK… |
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA |
"THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK" ASKS, "SHALL I PART MY HAIR BEHIND? DO I DARE TO EAT" THIS FRUIT? |
A PEACH |
IN A KEATS ODE, THESE 5 WORDS IMMEDIATLEY PRECEDE "THAT IS ALL YE KNOW ON EARTH, AND ALL YE NEED TO KNOW"… |
BEAUTY IS TRUTH; TRUTH BEAUTY |
HIS "DOVER BEACH" MENTIONS THE FRENCH COAST AND THE CLIFFS OF ENGLAND… |
MATTHEW ARNOLD |
JOHN BERRYMAN'S POEM "HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET" IS A TRIBUTE TO HER… |
ANNE BRADSTREET |
SHAKESPEARE SAID OF THIS HANDSOME MYTHOLOGICAL MAN, "HUNTING HE LOV'D, BUT OVE HE LAUGH'D TO SCORN"… |
ADONIS |
BYRON'S 1814 ODE TO HIM SAYS, "NOR TILL THY FALL COULD MORTALS GUESS AMBITION'S LESS THAN LITTLENESS!" |
NAPOLEON |
"SO FAITHFUL IN LOVE, AND SO DAUNTLESS IN WAR, THERE NEVER WAS A KNIGHT LIKE" THIS SIR WALTER SCOTT POETIC HERO… |
LOCHINVAR |
"POETICS" BY THIS LYCEUM FOUNDER HAS BEEN CALLED THE SINGLE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK IN ALL OF LITERARY CRITICISM |
ARISTOTLE |
PINDAR WAS FAMOUS FOR THIS TYPE OF POEM |
ODE |
MANY GREEK AND LATIN EPIC POEMS OPEN WITH AN INVOCATION TO ONE OF THESE GODDESSES |
MUSES |
EACH LINE OF A SONNET TYPICALLY CONTAINS 5 OF THESE METRICAL FEET |
IAMBS |
AN ABECEDARIAN POEM IS MARKED BY ADHERENCE TO THIS |
ALPHABET |
KEATS' "ODE TO___": "THOU WAST NOT BORN FOR DEATH, IMMORTAL BIRD" |
NIGHTINGALE |
"A FREE BIRD LEAPS ON THE BACK OF THE WIND AND FLOATS DOWNSTREAM…" |
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS |
"TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A YELLOW WOOD" |
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN |
"THE TREE HAS ENTERED MY HANDS, THE SAP HAS ASCENDED MY ARMS…" |
A GIRL (EZRA POUND) |
"SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY? THOU ART MORE LOVELY A ND MORE TEMPERATE…" |
SONNET 18 (SHAKESPEARE) |
"STOP ALL THE CLOCKS, CUT OFF THE TELEPHONE, PREVENT THE DOG FROM BARKING WITH JUICY BONE… |
FUNERAL BLUES (W.H. AUDEN) |
"I MET A TRAVELLER FROM AN ANCIENT LAND WHO SAID: TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE…" |
OZYMANDIAS (SHELLEY) |
"GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY, OLD TIME IS STILL A-FLYING" |
TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME (ROBERT HERRICK) |
ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, WHILE I PONDERED, WEAK AND WEARY" |
THE RAVEN |
HE IS STARK MAD, WHO EVER SAYS, THAT HE HATH BEEN IN LOVE AN HOUR… |
THE BROKEN HEART (JOHN DONNE) |
"TWAS BRILLIG, AND THE SLITHY TOVES…" |
JABBERWOCKY (LEWIS CARROLL) |
"THE OUTLOOK WASN'T BRILLIANT FOR THE MUDVILLE NINE THAT DAY…" |
CASEY AT THE BAT (ERNEST THAYER) |
"LET US GO THEN, YOU AND I, WHEN THE EVENING IS SPREAD OUT AGAINST THE SKY" |
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK |
"I CELEBRATE MYSELF, AND SING MYSELF, AND WHAT I ASSUME YOU SHALL ASSUME…" |
SONG OF MYSELF (WHITMAN) |
"OF MAN'S FIRST DISOBEDIENCE, AND THE FRUIT OF THAT FORBIDDEN TREE WHOSE MORTAL TASTE…" |
PARADISE LOST (MILTON) |
"THE RAIN SET EARLY IN TONIGHT, THE SULLEN WIND WAS SOON AWAKE, IT TORE THE ELM-TOPS DOWN FOR SPITE…" |
PORPHYRIA'S LOVER (ROBERT BROWNING) |
"HALF A LEAGUE, HALF A LEAGUE, HALF A LEAGUE ONWARDS…" |
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (TENNYSON) |
HE WROTE & ILLUSTRATED "SONGS OF INNOCENCE" AND "SONGS OF EXPERIENCE" |
WILLIAM BLAKE |
THIS IRISH POET "WILL ARISE AND GO NOW, AND GO TO INNISFREE, AND A SMALL CABIN BUILD THERE" |
YEATS |
THIS BRITISH POET WROTE, "WHEN I CONSIDER HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT, ERE HALF MY DAYS, IN THIS DARK WORLD AND WIDE" |
MILTON |
FOR HIS GREATEST POEM, EDMUND SPENSER INVENTED A LAND CALLED THIS AND ITS QUEENE |
FAIRIE |
THIS MATTHEW ARNOLD POEM SAYS, "ON THE FRENCH COAST THE LIGHT GLEAMS" AND "THE CLIFFS OF ENGLAND STAND GLIMMERING" |
DOVER BEACH |
THESE 11TH-13TH-C. POETS USED A FORM CALLED "LE JEU PARTI", A VERSE DEBATE ON LOVE |
TROUBADORS |
THE NAME OF THIS FRENCH POET, A SUBJECT IN VERLAINE'S "THE DAMNED POETS", SOUNDS LIKE A STALLONE ROLE |
RIMBAUD |
THE BOATHOUSE, THIS POET'S WRITING SHED IN LAUGHARNE, WALES, IS NOW A MUSEUM |
DYLAN THOMAS |
IN THE EARLY 14TH-C., HE CALLED HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK "A COMEDY" BECAUSE OF ITS SAD BEGINNING AND HAPPY ENDING |
DANTE |
HIS FATHER CAME FROM RUSSIAN NOBILITY; HIS MOTHER WAS DESCENDED FROM AN AFRICAN PRINCE |
PUSHKIN |
IN 1871, AS A DEBAUCHED, VISIONARY 16-YEAR-OLD, HE WROTE "LE BATEAU IVRE" OR "THE DRUNKEN BOAT" |
ARTHUR RIMBAUD |
THE IRISH LITERARY THEATRE OPENED IN 1899 WITH THIS CO-FOUNDER'S DRAMA "THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN" |
W.B. YEATS |
SHE POETIZED, "LIFE, BELIEVE, IS NOT A DREAM SO DARK AS SAGES SAY"; JANE EYRE COULD HAVE USED THOSE THOUGHTS |
CHARLOTTE BRONTE |
IN 1885 HE PUT OUT THE QUIET, "A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES" |
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
IN 1899, THIS "STEPPENWOLF" AUTHOR PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK, THE POETRY COLLECTION "ROMANTIC SONGS" |
HERMANN HESSE |
"SO FAITHFUL IN LOVE, AND SO DAUNTLESS IN WAR, THERE NEVER WAS A KNIGHT LIKE…" THIS SIR WALTER SCOTT POETIC HERO |
LOCHINVAR |
ESTHER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN THIS, THE ONLY NOVEL BY ITS POET AUTHOR |
THE BELL JAR |
PART 1 OF LONGFELLOW'S "SONG OF …" THIS MAN IS ENTITLED "THE PEACE PIPE" |
HIAWATHA |
IN 1814, SEEING A LADY IN MOURNING IN A SPANGLED DRESS, THIS LORD WROTE, "SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, LIKE THE NIGHT" |
BYRON |
HIS "DIVINE COMEDY" IS 100 CANTOS WRITTEN IN TERZA RIMA |
DANTE |
A POEM OF HERS SAYS, "I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE!" |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
THIS POET TOOK MELANCHOLY JOURNEYS LIKE THE ONES IN HIS LONG NARRATIVE POEM "CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE" |
LORD BYRON |
HIS "POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1786 IN KILMARNOCK AND SOLD 600 COPIES |
BURNS |
IN "DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS", HE WROTE, "NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, ENTIRE OF ITSELF" |
JOHN DONNE |
THIS EPIC POEM BY VIRGIL BEGINS WHEN A TROJAN HERO AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE SHIPWRECKED NEAR CARTHAGE |
AENEID |
IN 1798 HE RECEIVED AND ANNUITY FROM JOSIAH & THOMAS WEDGWOOD, AND HIS "LYRICAL BALLADS" WAS PUBLISHED |
COLERIDGE |
A GRAVESTONE AT BUNHILL FIELDS SAYS, "NEAR BY LIE THE REMAINS OF THE POET-PAINTER…" THIS MAN, "1757-1827" |
WILLIAM BLAKE |
A POEM BY THIS AMERICAN BEGINS, "WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D" |
WHITMAN |
THIS LAKE POET, PERHAPS LONELY AS A CLOUD, WANDERED OVER TO VISIT SIR WALTER SCOTT IN 1803 |
WORDSWORTH |
HIS "LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK" SAYS, "IN THE ROOM THE WOMEN COME AND GO/ TALKING OF MICHELANGELO" |
T.S. ELIOT |
RICHARD CORY, "A GENTLEMAN FROM SOLE TO CROWN" IN A POEM BY THIS MAN, "PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
"FUNERAL BLUES" BY THIS BRITISH POET, BEGINS, "STOP ALL THE CLOCKS, CUT OFF THE TELEPHONE" |
W.H. AUDEN |
THIS POET LAUREATE'S "IM MEMORIAM" WAS AN ELEGY TO HIS FRIEND ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM |
TENNEYSON |
IN 1827 HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY A "EDGAR A. PERRY" |
POE |
IN 1900 HIS GRANDFATHER BOUGHT HIM A CHICKEN FARM NEAR DERRY, NH |
FROST |
HE WROTE, "WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE UP A DARK ALLEY WITH CAESAR BORGIA AND HE WAS COMING TORGIA" |
OGDEN NASH |
FIRST NAME OF THE PULITZER-WINNING POET WHOSE SON CHARLES WAS INVOLVED IN THE 1950S QUIZ SHOW SCANDALS |
MARK (VAN DOREN) |
HE WAS A DESCENDANT OF JOHN & PRICILLA ALDEN, WHOSE LOVE STORY HE TOLD IN AN 1858 NARRATIVE POEM |
LONGFELLOW |
POET LAUREATE ROBERT SOUTHEY WROTE THAT "CURSES ARE LIKE YOUNG CHICKENS, THEY ALWAYS COME HOME TO …" DO THIS |
ROOST |
THIS POETRY COLLECTION HAD A FOLLOW-UP, "THE NEW SPOON RIVER" |
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY |
IN ARABIC "RUBAI'I" REFERS TO A TYPE OF 4-LINE VERSE, AND THIS BOOK IS A BOOK OF THEM, LIKE OMAR KHAYYAM'S |
A RUBAIYAT |
IN 1923 HE PUBLISHED THE COLLECTION "NEW HAMPSHIRE" |
ROBERT FROST |
"THE LAMB" AND "THE SHEPHERD" ARE FOUND IN THESE WILLIAM BLAKE "SONGS" FROM 1789 |
SONGS OF INNOCENCE |
CRITIC HIPPOLYTE BABOU SUGGESTED THE TITLE OF BAUDELAIRE'S "LES FLEURS DU MAL", WHICH TRANSLATES AS THIS |
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL |
IN THE 78TH OF THESE SACRED POEMS, MANNA IS REFERRED TO AS "THE CORN OF HEAVEN" AND "ANGEL'S FOOD" |
(BOOK OF) PSALMS |
"PEACE" BE WITH THIS MEXICAN, WHO PUBLISHED "LUNA SILVESTRE", HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, WHEN HE WAS 19 |
OCTAVIO PAZ |
"THE DRUNKEN DRIVER HAS THE RIGHT OF WAY" IS A BOOK OF POEMS BY THIS MAN WHO PRODUCED "MILLER'S CROSSING" |
ETHAN COEN |
ONE POEM IN HER 1850 BOOK "POEMS" USES THE WORD "LOVE" 22 TIMES IN 44 LINES |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
THE COSTUMES FOR THIS LONG-RUNNING MUSICAL BASED ON T.S. ELIOT'S BOOK OF POEMS INCLUDE POINTY EARS AND TAILS |
CATS |
IN 1913 HE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS AS WELL AS "SONS AND LOVERS" |
D.H. LAWRENCE |
JOYCE KILMER'S BIG BOOK OF 1914 WAS "…. AND OTHER POEMS" |
TREES |
THIS QUINTESSENTIAL NEW ENGLANDER PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, "A BOY'S WILL", WHILE LIVING IN ENGLAND IN 1913 |
ROBERT FROST |
IT'S THE BOOK OF LOVE POEMS BY KING SOLOMON |
SONG OF SONGS |
HIS BOOK OF POEMS CALLED "DRUM-TAPS" WAS INSPIRED BY THE SUFFERING HE SAW DURING THE CIVIL WAR |
WALT WHITMAN |
THIS BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT CONSISTS OF 5 POEMS MOURING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM |
LAMENTATIONS |
IN 1998 THIS YOUNG POP STAR PUBLISHED HER POEMS IN THE BOOK "A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR" |
JEWEL |
"THE CINNAMON PEELER" IS A BOOK OF POEMS BY THIS CEYLON-BORN AUTHOR OF "THE ENGLISH PATIENT" |
MICHAEL ONDAATJE |
WHITMAN'S BOOK OF CIVIL WAR POEMS "DRUM TAPS", LATER BECAME PART OF THIS LARGER COLLECTION |
LEAVES OF GRASS |
THIS MISSISSIPPI-BORN NOVELIST PUBLISHED HIS 2ND AND LAST BOOK OF POEMS, "A GREEN BOUGH", IN 1933 |
FAULKNER |
THIS BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS BASICALLY A COLLECTION OF LOVE POEMS |
SONG OF SOLOMON |
AFTER SHE DIED IN 1886, HER SISTER LAVINIA DISCOVERED HUNDREDS OF HER POEMS IN LITTLE HANDSEWN BOOKLETS |
DICKINSON |
"I TOOK THE ONE LESS TRAVELED BY, AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE" |
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN |
"RATS! THEY FOUGHT THE DOGS, AND KILLED THE CATS, AND BIT THE BABIES IN THE CRADLES" |
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN |
"AT LENGTH DID CROSS AN ALBATROSS, THROUGH THE FOG IT CAME" |
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER |
WRITER WHO USED THE SAME FIRST & LAST NAMES AND WAS THE SUBJECT OF A POEM BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |
FORD MADDOX FORD |
LAUGH ALL YOU LIKE BUT HIAWATHA'S WIFE IN A POEM BY LONGFELLOW WAS NAMED FOR THIS NIMMESOTA WATERFALL |
MINNEHAHA |
IN "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN", LITTLE EVA'S NAME IS ACTUALLY THIS, LIKE THE HEROINE OF A LONGFELLOW POEM |
EVANGELINE |
HAT NAMED AFTER THE HERO OF A 1791 POEM BY ROBERT BURNS |
TAM-O-SHANTER |
THE POEM CALLED THE "GARIBNAMEH" CONTAINS 11,000 MASNAVI, WHICH WE KNOW AS THESE RHYMED 2-LINE UNITS OF VERSE |
COUPLETS |
THE HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC'S HALL SHARES ITS NAME WITH THIS SIBELIUS TONE POEM |
FINLANDIA |
ANDREA D'AGNOLO DI FRANCESCO IS BETTER KNOWN B THIS NAME FOUND IN THE TITLE OF ROBERT BROWNING'S POEM ABOUT HIM |
ANDREA DEL SARTO |
HE WROTE THE POEM FROM WHICH PIPPA PASSES, KY TOOK ITS NAME |
ROBERT BROWNING |
THE NAME OF THIS TYPE OF POEM IS FROM THE JAPANESE FOR "STANZA" |
HAIKU |
RICHARD CORY, "A GENTLEMAN FROM SOLE TO CROWN" IN A POEM BY THIS 3-NAMED MAN, "PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
A LONGFELLOW POEM AND A LILLIAN HELLMAN PLAY ABOUT A GIRLS' BOARDING SCHOOL SHARE THIS TIMELY NAME |
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR |
A TYPE OF HUMOROUS POEM BEARS THE NAME OF THIS IRISH PORT CITY |
LIMERICK |
THIS OHIO CITY WAS CALLED THE "QUEEN OF THE WEST" EVEN BEFORE A LONGFELLOW POEM POPULARIZED THE NICKNAME |
CINCINNATI |
USERMATRE, ONE OF RAMSES' NAMES, EVOLVED INTO THIS TITLE OF A SHELLEY POEM ABOUT A SHATTERED STATUE OF RAMSES |
OZYMANDIAS |
DEAFNESS DIDN'T STOP JOACHIM DU BELLAY'S 115 POEMS, STYLED AFTER THIS ITALIAN FOR WHOM A STYLE OF SONNET IS NAMED |
PETRARCH |
DYLAN THOMAS: "RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT" |
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT |
WHITMAN: "DO I CONTRADICT MYSELF? VERY WELL THEN I CONTRADICT MYSELF" |
SONG OF MYSELF |
ANDREW MARVELL: "HAD WE BUT WORLD ENOUGH, AND TIME, THIS COYNESS, LADY, WERE NO CRIME" |
TO HIS COY MISTRESS |
KEATS: "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER; ITS LOVELINESS INCREASES" |
ENDYMION |
T.S.ELIOT: "LET US GO THEN, YOU AND I, WHEN THE EVENING IS SPREAD OUT AGAINST THE SKY" |
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK |
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WAS JUST 17 WHEN HE WROTE THIS POEM WHOSE NAME COMES FROM THE GREEK FOR "VIEW OF DEATH" |
THANATOPSIS |
ATTILA THE HUN APPEARS UNDER THE NAME ETZEL IN THIS 13TH-C. GERMAN EPIC POEM LATER ADAPTED INTO A WAGNER WORK |
THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG |
"TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS" REFERS TO THESE AS COURSERS, CALLING THEM BY NAME |
REINDEER |
IN A NONSENSE POEM, LEWIS CARROLL WARNED "BEWARE" OF THIS CREATURE, "MY SON" |
THE JABBERWOCK |
A LORD BYRON POEM INSPIRED THIS GREAT FRENCH ROMANTIC PAINTER'S "THE DEATH OF SARDANAPALUS" |
DELACROIX |
THIS SYNONYM FOR GIBBERISH COMES FROM THE NAME OF A LEWIS CARROLL POEM |
JABBERWOCKY |
A NEW HAMPSHIRE CAMP IS NAMED FOR THIS MAN IN TRIBUTE TO HIS POEM "I HEAR AMERICA SINGING" |
WHITMAN |
THE A-BOMB TEST SITE WAS NAMED THIS, AFTER THE JOHN DONNE POEM "BATTER MY HEART, THREE-PERSONED GOD" |
TRINITY |
HILDA DOOLITTLE WAS FAMOUS FOR PUBLISHING HER POEMS UNDER THIS EXTREMELY SHORT PEN NAME |
H.D. |
THIS PLAYWRIGHT, A "BLITHE SPIRIT", WROTE HIS "CHELSEA BUNS" POEMS UNDER THE PEN NAME HERNIA WHITTLEBOT |
NOEL COWARD |
THIS SONNETEER'S "CANZONIERE" CONSISTS OF 366 POEMS, MANY OF THEM LOVE LYRICS TO A MYSTERY LADY NAMED LAURA |
PETRARCH |
IN A MOCK-EPIC POEM BY BYRON, THE NAME OF THIS LEGENDARY SPANISH RAKE RHYMES WITH "NEW ONE" |
DON JUAN |
THIS WORD FOR A STREET URCHIN WHO WEARS RAGGEDY CLOTHES WAS THE NAME OF A DEMON IN THE POEM "PIERS PLOWMAN" |
RAGAMUFFIN |
THE BOOJUM TREE WAS NAMED FOR THE MYSTERIOUS MONSTER IN HIS POEM, "THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK" |
LEWIS CARROLL |
A MONKEY GOD NAMED HANUMAN APPEARS IN THE "RAMAYANA", AN EPIC POEM OF THIS COUNTRY |
INDIA |
HE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED HIS "SPOON RIVER" POEMS UNDER THE NAME "WEBSTER FORD" |
EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
FREDERICK ASHTON'S BALLET, "THE LADY OF SHALLOT" IS BASED ON THIS MAN'S POEM OF THE SAME NAME |
TENNYSON |
THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION OF POEMS DID NOT INCLUDE "THE LAST TOURNAMENT"; IT WAS ADDED IN THE 1870S |
IDYLLS OF THE KING |
WALT WHITMAN CALLED THIS "THE BEAUTIFUL UNCUT HAIR OF GRAVES" |
GRASS |
FROM THE 1795 POEM "ERIN": "NOR ONE FEELING OF VENGEANCE PRESUME TO DEFILE/ THE CAUSE, OR THE MEN, OF" THIS PLACE |
THE EMERALD ISLE |
"HE IS ALL PINE, AND I AM APPLE ORCHARD. MY APPLE TREES WILL NEVER GET ACROSS AND EAT THE CONES UNDER HIS PINES" |
MENDING WALL |
THIS REAL MAN INSPIRED A 1719 NOVEL CHARACTER AND A POEM THAT SAYS, "I AM MONARCH OF ALL I SURVEY" |
ALEXANDER SELKIRK |
"FOREVER CURSED BE THIS DESTESTED DAY, WHICH SNATCHED BY BEST, MY FAVORITE CURL AWAY" |
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK |
IN 1341 THE ROMAN SENATE CROWNED THIS SONNETEER POET LAUREATE |
PETRARCH |
IT'S A PERSON HELD IN HIGH REGARD OR AWARDED FOR GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS, LIKE CERTAIN POETS |
LAUREATE |
THIS POET WHOSE FIRST NAME WAS ALGERNON, WAS DESCRIBED AS THE "LIBIDINOUS LAUREATE OF A PACK OF SATYRS" |
SWINBURNE |
THIS AUTHOR OF 1935'S "MULATTO" WAS REFERRED TO AS "THE POET LAUREATE OF HARLEM" |
LANGSTON HUGHES |
WHEN HE BECAME BRITAIN'S POET LAUREATE IN 1968, HIS SON DANIEL WAS 10 |
CECIL DAY-LEWIS |
IN 2006 DONALD HALL, KNOWN FOR POEMS ABOUT HIS WIFE, JANE KENYON, WAS LAUDED AFTER HIS APPOINTMENT AS THIS |
U.S. POET LAUREATE |
IN 1945 THIS POET LAUREATE OF ILLINOIS PUBLISHED HER FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY, "A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE" |
GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
IN 1850 THE ATHENAEUM SUGGESTED THAT SHE SUCCEED WORDSWORTH AS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
THE USA'S FIRST POET LAUREATE, HE TAUGHT AT LSU FROM 1934-42 AND EDITED THE SOUTHERN REVIEW |
ROBERT PENN WARREN |
THE 1ST COMMISSION OF ANDREW MOTION, APPOINTED ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE IN 1999, WAS TO COMPOSE A LITTLE DITTY FOR THIS PRINCE'S WEDDING |
EDWARD |
IN 1843, 36 YEARS AFTER HE "WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD", HE WAS NAMED ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE |
WORDSWORTH |
EDWARD IS THE ACTUAL FIRST NAME OF THIS POET WHO WAS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE FROM 1984-1998 |
TED HUGHES |
IN 1852, THIS POET LAUREATE AND LORD WROTE HIS "ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON" |
TENNYSON |
POET LAUREATE OF THE U.S. FROM 1993-1995, SHE WON A 1987 PULITZER FOR "THOMAS AND BEULAH" |
RITA DOVE |
THIS POET LAUREATE'S "IN MEMORIAM" WAS AN ELEGY TO HIS FRIEND ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM |
TENNYSON |
THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO SERVE AS U.S. POET LAUREATE |
RITA DOVE |
IN 1757 THIS "ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" POET REFUSED AN APPOINTMENT AS POET LAUREATE |
THOMAS GRAY |
THIS ACTOR IS THE SON OF A BRITISH POET LAUREATE AND THE SON-IN-LAW OF PLAYWRIGHT ARTHUR MILLER |
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS |
ROBERT SOUTHEY'S PORSE COLLECTION, "THE DOCTOR", FEATURED THIS URSINE NURSERY STORY |
THE STORY OF THE 3 BEARS |
JOHN DRYDEN ALSO WROTE PLAYS: HIS "ALL FOR LOVE" WAS BASED ON THIS ROMAN TALE BY SHAKESPEARE |
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA |
HE WROTE "NOTHING CAN BRING BACK THE HOUR OF SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS, OF GLORY IN THE FLOWER" |
WORDSWORTH |
HE WAS A ROMANTIC POET, A LAKE POET, A POET LAUREATE, AND THE POET WHO PENNED "ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS" |
WORDSWORTH |
IN 1854 THIS POET LAUREATE WROTE, "INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH RODE THE SIX HUNDRED" |
TENNYSON |
ENGLAND'S FIRST POET LAUREATE, APPOINTED FOR LIFE IN 1668 |
JOHN DRYDEN |
IN 1883 QUEEN VICTORIA GAVE THIS POET LAUREATE THE TITLE "BARON OF ALDWORTH AND FRESHWATER" |
TENNYSON |
THIS BLACK POETESS WON A PULITZER PRIZE FOR "ANNIE ALLEN" |
GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
A SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT SINCE THE 1950S, IN 1998 HE BECAME THE CITY'S FIRST POET LAUREATE |
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI |
HE WAS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE FROM 1850-1892, LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE |
TENNYSON |
IN "EUGENE ONEGIN", PUSHKIN WROTE, "NOW SOUTHWARD SWEPT THE CARAVAN OF THE WILD"…THESE, "A NOISY CLAN" |
GEESE |
PISTOL CALLS HIS WIFE "MY DUCK" AS HE KISSES HER AND GOES OFF TO WAR IN FRANCE IN THIS SHAKESPEAREAN HISTORY PLAY |
HENRY V |
"WE WILL EAT OUR MULLETS, SOUSED IN WINES", AND "SUP PHEASANTS' EGGS", THIS ELIZABETHEAN DRAMATIST WROTE IN "THE ALCHEMIST" |
BEN JONSON |
THE "NEW ENGLAND MYSTIC" |
EMILY DICKINSON |
HE PUBLISHED THE POETRY COLLECTION "NORTH OF BOSTON" |
FROST |
A FAMOUS LINE IN A JAMES WELDON JOHNSON POEM SAYS, "YOUNG MAN—YOUNG MAN—YOUR ARM'S TOO SHORT TO…" DO THIS |
BOX WITH GOD |
T.S. ELIOT DEDICATED "THE WASTE LAND" TO THIS POET & CRITIC WHO HELPED REVISE IT |
EZRA POUND |
LONGFELLOW URGED, "ENJOY THY YOUTH, IT WILL NOT STRAY, FOR OH, IT IS NOT ALWAYS" THIS MONTH |
MAY |
"NOTWITHSTANDING MANY HINTS TO THE CONTRARY", HE SAID, "I STILL MAINTAIN" CHILDE HAROLD "TO BE A FICTIOUS PERSONAGE" |
BYRON |
THE ROSSETTIS PUBLISHED POEMS IN THE GERM, A SHORT-LIVED MAGAZINE FROM THIS ARTSY GROUP |
PRE-RAPHAELITES |
HE WROTE, "MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD A RAINBOW IN THE SKY" IN THE EARLY 1800S AT GRASMERE |
WORDSWORTH |
IN A POEM IN THIS 1855 COLLECTION, THE AUTHOR INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS "WALT WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN" |
LEAVES OF GRASS |
"A JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD–AND THOU" IS A LINE FROM THIS OMAR KHAYYAM WORK |
RUBAIYAT |
SHE WROTE IN A SONNET, "FIRST TIME HE KISSED ME, HE BUT ONLY KISS'D THE FINGERS OF THIS HAND WHEREWITH I WRITE" |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
IN 1919'S "TRADITION & THE INDIVIDUAL TALENT", THIS AMERICAN-BRITISH POET SAID POETS MUST LEARN THE WORK OF THE PAST |
T.S. ELIOT |
THIS RAKISH LORD OF POETRY, BORN IN 1788, WORE ROMANTIC OPEN-NECK SHIRTS STILL POPULAR WITH POETS TODAY |
BYRON |
GEORGE HERBERT & RICHARD CRANSHAW WEREN'T KNOWN AS THE PHYSICAL POETS BUT AS THESE POETS, A SLIGHTLY LONGER TERM |
METAPHYSICAL POETS |
THE FRENCH SYMBOLIST POETS POPULARIZED THIS, A TERM WHOSE FRENCH TRANSLATION IS VERS LIBRE |
FREE VERSE |
AMONG OCCUPATIONAL SCHOOL NICKNAMES ARE THE BRANDEIS JUDGES AND THE WHITTIER THESE |
POETS |
THIS HERO WENT "FORTH UPON THE GITCHE GUMEE…WITH HIS FISHING-LINE OF CEDAR" TO CATCH A STURGEON |
HIAWATHA |
FOR WRITING THE PAMPHLET "THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM", THIS "ODE TO THE WEST WIND" POET WAS EXPELLED FROM OXFORD |
SHELLEY |
THE FIRST LINE OF THIS POEM IS "SING, GODDESS, THE ANGER OF PELEUS'S SON ACHILLES" |
THE ILLIAD |
IN 1899 THIS IRISH POET AND DRAMATIST CO-FOUNDED THE IRISH LITERARY THEATRE, WHICH LATER BECAME THE ABBEY THEATRE |
YEATS |
IN 1823 LORD BYRON PENNED, "AND, AFTER ALL, WHAT IS A LIE? 'TIS BUT" THIS "IN MASQUERADE" |
THE TRUTH |
POEM IN WHICH KEATS WROTE, "HEARD MEMORIES ARE SWEET, BUT THOSE UNHEARD ARE SWEETER" |
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN |
HE KNEW A LOT ABOUT "STONE WALLS": HE WAS IMPRISONED IN 1642 AND 1648 AND WROTE FAMOUS POEMS BOTH TIMES |
RICHARD LOVELACE |
HE WAS THE FIRST TO BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY'S POETS' CORNER |
CHAUCER |
TREES FIGURED IN MANY OF HIS POEMS, LIKE "BIRCHES", "DUST OF SNOW", AND "GOOD-BYE AND KEEP COLD" |
FROST |
"FOR THE UNION DEAD" IS A 1964 BOOK BY THIS POET WHOSE ANCESTORS CAME OVER ON THE MAYFLOWER |
ROBERT LOWELL |
IN 1995 THIS SEAMUS FROM IRELAND DETECTED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE COMING HIS WAY |
SEAMUS HEANEY |
THIS GREEK LYRIC POETESS CREATED A VERSE FORM FEATURING 3 LINES OF 11 SYLLABLES AND A FOURTH LINE OF 5 SYLLABLES |
SAPPHO |
IT COMPLETES THE ROBERT BROWNING LINE "GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN…" |
ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD |
THIS POEM BEGINS, "ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, WHILE I PONDERED WEAK AND WEARY" |
THE RAVEN |
THE POETRY OF ATTILO JOZSEF, IMMORTALIZING HIS WASHERWOMAN MOTHER, IS A MONUMENT OF THIS LANGUAGE |
HUNGARIAN |
HE WROTE "SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE" AND "SONG OF MYSELF" |
WHITMAN |
"THE CARRIAGE HELD BUT JUST OURSELVES AND IMMORTALITY" IS A FAMOUS LINE FROM A POEM BY THIS WOMAN |
DICKINSON |
IN "ENDYMION" HE WROTE, "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER" |
KEATS |
IN 1945 THIS SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY'S GABRIELA MISTRAL WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE |
CHILE |
A POEM BY POE PURPORTS TO BE THE CONFESSION OF THIS LAME ASIATIC CONQUEROR, ALSO A CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE SUBJECT |
TAMERLANE |
TAKING ITS TITLE FROM "SONG OF MYSELF", THE BOOK "CONTAINING MULTITUDES" TRACES HIS INFLUENCE ON RECENT POETRY |
WHITMAN |
HIS NONSENSE POEM "THE NEW VESTMENTS" SAYS, "HIS BUTTONS WERE JUJUBES, AND CHOCOLATE DROPS" |
EDWARD LEAR |
IN 1945 THIS POET WAS ELECTED A SENATOR IN CHILE |
PABLO NERUDA |
"ONE CALM SUMMER NIGHT" THIS CHARACTER "WENT HOME AND PUT A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD" |
RICHARD COREY |
TENNYSON'S "THE LOTUS EATERS" IS BASED ON AN EPISODE FROM THIS WORK OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE |
THE ODYSSEY |
IN AN ERNEST THAYER POEM, COONEY, BURROWS, FLYNN, AND BLAKE PRECEDED THIS MAN TO THE PLATE |
CASEY |
IN "SEA FEVER", ALL JOHN MASEFIELD ASKED FOR "IS A TALL SHIP AND A STAR TO…" DO THIS |
STEER BY HER |
THIS HARLEM RENAISSANCE POET WONDERED, "WHAT HAPPENS TO A DREAM DEFERRED?" |
LANGSTON HUGHES |
BY THE TITLE, IT'S WHAT KEATS' "LA BELLE DAME" WAS "SANS" |
MERCI |
WHITMAN'S "WHEN LILIES LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D" WAS AN ELEGY FOR THIS MAN |
LINCOLN |
SHE'S WON 2 GRAMMYS FOR ALBUMS OF HER POETRY, "ON THE PULSE OF MORNING" AND "PHENOMENAL WOMAN" |
MAYA ANGELOU |
THIS BRITISH POET SPENT THE LAST 15 YEARS OF HER LIFE AT HER VILLA IN FLORENCE, ITALY |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
THIS LEADER OF THE IMAGIST SCHOOL WAS THE SISTER OF THE FAMOUS ASTRONOMER WHO PREDICTED THE EXISTENCE OF PLUTO |
AMY LOWELL |
"THE COMING OF ARTHUR" AND "GARETH AND LYNETTE" ARE PARTS OF HIS "IDYLLS OF THE KING" |
TENNYSON |
THIS ROMANTIC POET'S NAME GAVE US AN ADJECTIVE FOR THE TYPE OF HERO HE CREATED…A BROODING YOUNG MAN |
BYRON |
"RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE" IS FOUND IN THIS LAKE POET'S 1807 "POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES" |
WORDSWORTH |
LAST NAME OF POET WYSTAN HUGH, WHO WROTE, "A POET'S HOPE: TO BE, LIKE SOME VALLEY CHEESE, LOCAL, BUT PRIZED ELSEWHERE" |
W.H. AUDEN |
THE LEAVES OF GRASS AT THIS POET'S GRAVE SURROUND A TOMB OF HIS OWN DESIGN IN HARLEIGH CEMETERY |
WHITMAN |
THIS WORD FOR THE POETIC MOVEMENT INCLUDING KEATS AND BYRON, IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN AMPHIBRACH |
ROMANTIC POETS |
HE WROTE THAT "NOTHING CAN BRING BACK THE HOUR OF SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS, OF GLORY IN THE FLOWER" |
WORDSWORTH |
PUBLISHED IN 1866, "BATTLE-PIECES" WAS HERMAN MELVILLE'S UNAPPRECIATED BOOK OF POETRY ABOUT THIS EVENT |
CIVIL WAR |
POET WHO WROTE THE IMMORTAL, "WHEN THE WORLD IN MUD-LUSCIOUS THE LITTLE LAME BALLOONMAN WHISTLES FAR AND WEE" |
ee cummings |
WITH 6 CHILDREN, THIS POET WAS WELL-EQUIPPED TO WRITE, "THE CHILDREN'S HOUR" |
LONGFELLOW |
WILLIAM O'CONNOR'S PAMPHLET IN DEFENSE OF THIS POET WAS TITLED "THE GOOD GRAY POET", HENCE HIS NICKNAME |
WHITMAN |
IN 1630 JOHN MILTON WROTE A SONNET HONORING THIS OTHER FAMOUS SONNETEER |
SHAKESPEARE |
VOLTAIRE'S MOCK HEROIC "LA PUCELLE" FEATURES THIS MEDIEVAL WARRIOR MAID |
JOAN OF ARC |
ODYSSEUS ELYTIS, A POET FROM THIS COUNTRY, WON THE 1979 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE |
GREECE |
"CROSSING THE WATER" AND "WINTER TREES" ARE 2 POSTHUMOUS COLLECTIONS BY THIS "BELL JAR" POET |
PLATH |
AT THE CALIFORNIA COLLEGE NAMED FOR JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, NO TEAM NICKNAME COULD BE FITTER |
POETS |
THIS AUTHOR OF THE POEM "DADDY" COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1963, BEFORE SHE COULD WORK OUT HER PARENTAL ISSUES |
PLATH |
HE READ ALMOST AS WELL AS HE WROTE: "DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT…" |
DYLAN THOMAS |
IN 1998 THIS YOUNG POP STAR PUBLISHED HER POEMS IN THE BOOK "A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR" |
JEWEL |
IN 1917, AT AGE 52, THIS IRISHMAN GOT MARRIED AND PUBLISHED HIS BOOK, "THE WILD SWANS OF COOLE" |
YEATS |
BEFORE WRITING POEMS LIKE "HIAWATHA", HE TAUGHT MODERN LANGUAGES AT BOWDOWIN COLLEGE |
LONGFELLOW |
A TASTY LITTLE VERSE BY ODGEN NASH SAYS, "I DON'T MIND EELS EXCEPT AS…" THESE |
MEALS |
IN THE SECOND EDITION OF "LEAVES OF GRASS", THIS PIECE WAS TITLED "POEM OF WALT WHITMAN, AN AMERICAN" |
SONG OF MYSELF |
HIS POEM "ENDYMION" BEGINS WITH THE LINE, "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER" |
JOHN KEATS |
IN 1958 T.S. ELIOT HELPED GAIN THE RELEASE OF THIS POET FROM A WASHINGTON MENTAL INSTITUTION |
EZRA POUND |
SAMUEL BUTLER RHYMED, "LOVE IS A BOY BY POETS STYLED; THEN SPARE THE ROD AND" DO THIS |
SPOIL THE CHILD |
"SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD" |
SAMUEL BUTLER |
THE WELCH EISTEDDFOD ORIGINALLY HONORED THESE MEDIEVAL POETS, BUT NOT SHAKESPEARE |
BARDS |
TYPE OF EVENT CELEBRATED BY AN "EPITHALAMION", LIKE THE ONE SPENSER WROTE ABOUT HIS OWN ELIZABETH BOYLE |
WEDDING |
TASLIMA NASRIN LEFT BANGLADESH AFTER INCURRING A 1994 ISLAMIC DEATH SENTENCE, LIKE THIS BRITISH AUTHOR |
SALMAN RUSHDIE |
IN 1811 THIS POET WAS EXPELLED FROM OXFORD FOR WRITING THE PAMPHLET "THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM" |
SHELLEY |
HE WAS ACTUALLY IN PRISON WHEN HE WROTE "TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON" |
RICHARD LOVELACE |
HE'S THE PATRON SAINT OF POETS AND OF WALES |
ST. DAVID |
"DOUBLE PERSEPHONE" WAS THE FIRST BOOK OF POETRY BY THIS CANADIAN AUTHOR OF "THE HANDMAID'S TALE" |
MARGARET ATWOOD |
"NATURE'S FIRST GREEN IS GOLD. HER HARDEST HUE TO HOLD" |
FROST |
ROBERT BURNS TOLD THIS "SWEET" RIVER TO "FLOW GENTLY…AMONG THY GREEN LEAVES" |
AFTON |
THIS "DON JUAN" POET ADOPTED A THIRD GIVEN NAME, NOEL, TO RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE FROM HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW |
LORD BYRON |
THIS 1712 POEM WAS BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF A LORD CUTTING A CURL FROM ARABELLA FERMOR'S HAIR |
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK |
WILLIAM BLAKE TELLS OF THIS ANIMAL "BURNING BRIGHT IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT" |
TIGER |
HIS CLASSIC 1946 POEM "FERN HILL" WAS INSPIRED BY A RELATIVE'S FARM IN WALES |
DYALN THOMAS |
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER COULD TELL YOU THE TITLE OF THE 1494 GERMAN POEM "DAS NARRENSCHIFF" MEANS THIS |
SHIP OF FOOLS |
EMMA LAZARUS IS BEST KNOWN FOR THIS SONNET INSCRIBED ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY'S BASE |
THE NEW COLOSSUS |
THE LAST WORK OF 15TH-C. POET CHRISTINE DE PISAN CELEBRATES THE MILITARY VICTORIES OF THIS WOMAN |
JOAN OF ARC |
IN A 1648 POEM, HE URGED RELUCTANT MAIDENS TO "GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY" |
ROBERT HERRICK |
THIS MIDWESTERN AMERICAN POET GAINED NEW FAME IN 1990 WITH "IRON JOHN: A BOOK ABOUT MEN" |
ROBERT BLY |
THIS 19TH-C. AUTHOR OF "LES FLEURS DU MAL" TRANSLATED POE'S TALES INTO FRENCH |
BAUDELAIRE |
THIS WORLD LEADER AND AUTHOR OF THE "LITTLE RED BOOK" WAS ALSO A POET |
MAO TSE-TUNG |
A SUMERIAN KING GOES ON ADVENTURES WITH HIS COMPANIAN ENKIDU, AND SEARCHES FOR IMMORTALITY AFTER THE LATTER'S DEATH |
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH |
A CONFLICT ARISES BETWEEN ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON IN THE FINAL WEEKS OF THE TROJAN WAR |
ILIAD (HOMER) |
A GREEK HERO ENCOUNTERS MANY OBSTACLES ON HIS LONG JOURNEY HOME FROM TROY |
ODYSSEY (HOMER) |
RAMA, AN INCARNATION OF VISHNU, PURSUES THE DEMON KING RAVANA IN AN EFFORT TO REUNITE WITH HIS KIDNAPPED WIFE SITA |
RAMAYANA |
A TROJAN HERO FLEES THE BURNING OF TROY AND GOES TO ITALY, BECOMING THE ANCESTOR OF THE ROMANS |
AENEID (VIRGIL) |
A SERIES OF UNCONNECTED TRANSFORMATION STORIES CENTRAL TO THE MYTHOLOGICAL CREATION AND HISTORY OF THE WORLD |
METAMORPHOSES (OVID) |
MANY TRADITIONAL NORSE POEMS COMPILED INTO ONE VOLUME |
EDDA |
CHARLEMAGNE'S ARMY, RETREATING FROM SPAIN, IS ATTACKED AND COURAGEOUSLY FIGHTS A LOSING BATTLE AGAINST THE BASQUES |
SONG OF ROLAND |
DANTE IS GUIDED BY THE POET VIRGIL THROUGH THE 3 REALMS OF THE DEAD; HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE |
DIVINE COMEDY |
ADAM AND EVE ARE TEMPTED BY SATAN AND EXPELLED FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN |
PARADISE LOST |
VARIOUS AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS ARE COMPILED, CENTERING AROUND AN OJIBWE HERO AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS WIFE, MINIHAHA |
SONG OF HIAWATHA |
IN MARCH 2003, THIS RELIGIOUS LEADER PUBLISHED A BOOK OF POETRY CALLED "ROMAN TRIPTYCH" THAT WAS RELEASED IN ITALIAN & POLISH |
JOHN PAUL II |
HER NEXT BOOK AFTER "FEAR OF FLYING" WAS A POETRY COLLECTION, "LOVEROOT" |
ERICA JONG |
THIS GROUP'S KERRY LIVGREN WROTE "DUST IN THE WIND" AFTER READING A BOOK OF NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY |
KANSAS |
IN 1899 THIS "STEPPENWOLF" AUTHOR PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK, THE POETRY COLLECTION "ROMANTIC SONGS" |
HERMANN HESSE |
IN AN A.E. HOUSMAN BOOK OF POETRY, A TITLE LAD WAS FROM THIS PLACE |
SHROPSHIRE |
"HOWL", HIS FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, WAS PUBLISHED BY CITY LIGHTS, A BOOKSTORE OWNED BY POET LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI |
GINSBERG |
LAST NAME OF THE SISTERS WHOSE 1846 BOOK OF POETRY, PUBLISHED UNDER MALE PSEUDONYMS, SOLD 2 COPIES |
BRONTE |
THE BOOK "O HOLY COW", MAKES POETRY OF THE WORDS OF THIS NY YANKEES BROADCASTER CALLED "SCOOTER" |
PHIL RIZZUTO |
WHILE ATTENDING SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, THIS "COLOR PURPLE" AUTHOR WROTE HER FIRST BOOK OF POETRY |
ALICE WALKER |
AFFLICTED WITH CEREBRAL PALSY, CHRISTY BROWN NOT ONLY PAINTED WITH THIS APPENDAGE, HE ALSO WROTE BOOKS & POETRY |
HIS LEFT FOOT |
TAKING ITS TITLE FROM "SONG OF MYSELF", THE BOOK "CONTAINING MULTITUDES" TRACES HIS INFLUENCE ON RECENT POETRY |
WHITMAN |
POET A.E. HOUSMAN PROBABLY HADN'T BEEN TO WASHINGTON WHEN HE CALLED THIS THE "LOVELIEST OF TREES" |
CHERRY TREE |
"MALT DOES MORE THAN" THIS POET "CAN JUSTIFY GOD'S WAYS TO MAN" |
JOHN MILTON |
THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO "SHOULDER-HIGH WE BRING YOU HOME…TOWNSMAN OF A STILLER TOWN" |
AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG |
"DOUBLE PERSEPHONE" WAS THE FIRST BOOK OF POETRY BY THIS CANADIAN AUTHOR OF "THE HANDMAID'S TALE" |
MARGARET ATWOOD |
"NORTH OF BOSTON" AND "NEW HAMPSHIRE" ARE BOOKS OF POETRY BY THIS MAN |
FROST |
"CLOWN'S HOUSES" IS A BOOK OF POETRY BY THIS SISTER OF OSBERT AND SACHEVERELL SITWELL |
EDITH SITWELL |
COLERIDGE WROTE "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER" FOR A BOOK OF POETRY CO-WRITTEN WITH THIS MAN |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
"EAST IS EAST, AND WEST IS WEST" IS FROM THIS KIPLING WORK |
GUNGA DIN |
CHAUCER, SHAKESPEARE, AND BLAKE ARE AMONG THE POETS WHO HAVE WRITTEN THAT LOVE HAS THIS DISABLITY |
IT IS BLIND |
BRITISH AUTHOR WHO WROTE "THE TIME HAS COME' THE WALRUS SAID, 'TO TALK OF MANY THINGS…" |
LEWIS CARROLL |
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE IN SAN FRANCISCO WAS A 1950S HANGOUT FOR THESE ITINERANT WRITERS AND POETS |
"BEAT" WRITERS |
ON FEB.12, 1959, THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH, HE ADDRESSED A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS |
CARL SANDBURG |
"IDYLLS OF THE KING" |
TENNYSON |
FOR MUCH OF THE WINTER OF 1794-95, HE SERVED AS ACTING SUPERVISOR FOR DUMFRIES, SCOTLAND |
ROBERT BURNS |
"I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD" INCLUDES HIS LINE, "A CROWD, A HOST OF GOLDEN DAFFODILS" |
WORDSWORTH |
WRITTEN IN 1811, HIS POEM, "FAREWELL TO MALTA", BEGINS, "ADIEU, YE JOYS OF LA VALETTE!" |
LORD BYRON |
HE CALLED "PROMETHEUS UNBOUND" "THE BEST THING I EVER WROTE" |
SHELLEY |
GEORGE THOMSON'S "SELECT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL SCOTTISH AIRS" CONTAINS MANY OF HIS SONGS |
ROBERT BURNS |
IN A LONGFELLOW POEM, THIS SCHOONER IS WRECKED "ON THE REEF OF NORMAN'S WOE" |
HESPERUS |
HIS 1892 WORK "BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS" INCLUDED SUCH POEMS AS "FUZZY-WUZZY" AND "DANNY DEEVER" |
KIPLING |
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE'S MASTERPIECE, "LES FLEURS DU MAL", TRANSLATES AS THESE "OF EVIL" |
FLOWERS |
SYLVIA PLATH PUBLISHED HER NOVEL, "THE BELL JAR", UNDER THIS PSEUDONYM |
VICTORIA LUCAS |
HIS COLLECTION, "THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT", CONTAINED HIS FREQUENTLY REPRINTED POEM "RICHARD CORY" |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
BEFORE THIS POET DIED IN 1400, HE WAS LIVING IN A HOUSE IN THE GARDEN OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY |
CHAUCER |
THE FIRST LINE OF THIS POET'S "ENDYMION" IS "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER" |
KEATS |
IN 1883 QUEEN VICTORIA GAVE THIS POET LAUREATE THE TITLE "BARON OF ALDWORTH & FRESHWATER" |
TENNYSON |
FOR 10 YEARS, THIS GREATEST OF GERMAN POETS PRACTICALLY RAN THE DUCHY OF SAXE-WEIMAR |
GOETHE |
LI PO, WHO LIVED OVER 1,000 YEARS AGO, WAS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S GREATEST POETS |
CHINA |
HE WROTE HIS OWN EPITAPH, "CAST A COLD EYE ON LIFE, ON DEATH, HORSEMAN, PASS BY!" |
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
HE OFTEN HAD VISIONS OF ANGELS & DEAD PEOPLE; PERHAPS HE SAW A "TYGER! TYGER! BURNING BRIGHT" TOO |
WILLIAM BLAKE |
GEORGIA POET SYDNEY LANIER SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS IN A MARYLAND PRISON DURING THIS WAR |
U.S. CIVIL WAR |
IN ONE OF HIS CUTE COUPLETS HE QUIPPED, "A BIT OF TALCUM IS ALWAYS WALCUM" |
OGDEN NASH |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON SPENT MUCH OF HIS LIFE IN THIS NEW ENGLAND STATE WHERE HE WAS BORN |
MASSACHUSETTS |
THIS 19TH-C. POET LAUREATE WAS THE MOST FAMOUS POET BORN IN THE LAKE DISTRICT OF ENGLAND |
WORDSWORTH |
THIS MAINE POETESS SOMETIMES WROTE UNDER THE SHORTER PEN NAME NANCY BOYD |
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
LONGFELLOW BEGAN A POEM ABOUT THIS EARLIER POET, "TUSCAN, THAT WANDEREST THROUGH THE REALMS OF GLOOM" |
LORD BYRON |
HE WROTE, "THE MASON SINGING…THE BOATMAN…THE HATTER…SINGING WHAT BELONGS TO HIM OR HER AND TO NONE ELSE" |
WHITMAN |
"I LOVE THEE FREELY, AS MEN STRIVE FOR RIGHT; I LOVE THEE PURELY, AS THEY TURN FROM PRAISE" |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
FIRED FROM A JOB FOR LAZINESS, HE WROTE, "I LEAN AND LOAFE AT MY EASE OBSERVING A SPEAR OF SUMMER GRASS" |
WHITMAN |
ONE OF HER POEMS SAYS, "I WAS TEN WHEN THEY BURIED YOU. AT TWENTY I TRIED TO DIE AND GET BACK, BACK, BACK, TO YOU" |
SYLVIA PLATH |
SHE WROTE, "FROM HER BEACON-HAND GLOWS WORLD-WIDE WELCOME; HER MILD EYES COMMAND THE AIR-BRIDGED HARBOR" |
EMMA LAZARUS |
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; 2005 EXHIBIT ON HIM HAD A SECTION TITLED, "WOUND DRESSER IN THE CIVIL WAR" |
WALT WHITMAN |
IN 1812 HE BECAME A DISCIPLE & FRIEND OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER WILLIAM GODWIN, LATER HIS FATHER-IN-LAW |
SHELLEY |
IN 1998, HE BECAME SAN FRANCISCO'S FIRST POET LAUREATE |
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI |
THIS FEMALE AMERICAN POET HAS A LINE OF HALLMARK CARDS |
MAYO ANGELOU |
THESE 2 GREAT ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS DIED WHILE STILL IN THEIR 20S, ONE IN 1821 AND ONE IN 1822 |
KEATS & SHELLEY |
MADE A BARON IN THE EARLY 1880S, HE WAS THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN ELEVATED TO THAT RANK FOR LITERARY WORK ALONE |
TENNYSON |
ONE REASON HE IS NOT BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY IS HIS EPITAPH, WHICH CONCLUDES, "CURST BE HE THAT MOVES MY BONES" |
SHAKESPEARE |
SPURNED IN LOVE, HE JOINED THE LIGHT DRAGOONS IN 1793 UNDER THE ALIAS SILAS TOMKYN COMBERBACHE |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
HE WAS ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE FROM 1850 TO 1892, LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE |
TENNYSON |
MASSACHUSETTS CITY NAMED FOR AN INDUSTRIALIST WHOSE FAMILY INCLUDED SEVERAL POETS AND AN ASTRONOMER |
LOWELL |
POETRY WITHOUT A SET RHYTHM OR PATTERN |
FREE VERSE |
A COMPARISON THAT GIVES HUMAN QUALITIES TO AN OBJECT |
PERSONIFICATION |
A WORD THAT IMITATES A SOUND |
ONOMATOPOEIA |
A LONG POEM, USUALLY 60+ LINES |
NARRATIVE POEM |
A COMPARISON THAT MAKES ONE THING AS IF IT IS SOMETHING ELSE |
METAPHOR |
COMPARISONS BETWEEN UNRELATED THINGS OR IDEAS |
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE |
A POET'S CHOICE OF WORDS OR ARRANGEMENTS |
DICTION |
A PAIR OF TWO RHYMING LINES WRITTEN IN THE SAME FORM |
COUPLET |
SHORT POEMS ABOUT PERSONAL FEELINGS OR EXPERIENCES |
LYRIC POEM |
ANY SENSORY IMPRESSION A POEM PRODUCES |
IMAGERY |
A LINE OR GROUP OF WORDS IN A POEM SEPARATED FROM ANOTHER GROUP OF LINES |
STANZA |
METAPHOR USING "LIKE" OR "AS" TO COMPARE THINGS |
SIMILE |
THE REPETITION OF BEGINNING SOUNDS(USUALLY CONSANANTS) IN NEIGHBORING WORDS |
ALLITERATION |
THE REPETITION OF VOWEL SOUNDS IN NEIGHBORING WORDS |
ASSONANCE |
JOHN DONNE: "AND ____ SHALL BE NO MORE:____, THOU SHALT DIE" |
DEATH |
IN ____ DID KUBLA KHAN/ A STATELY PLEASURE-DOME DECREE" (COLERIDGE) |
XANADU |
TENNYSON: TO STRIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND, AND NOT TO ____ |
YIELD |
SHELLEY: "MY NAME IS ____, KING OF KINGS/ LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR! |
OZYMANDIAS |
JOHN MASEFIELD: …TO THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY/AND ALL I ASK IS A TALL SHIP AND A ____ TO STEER HER BY |
STAR |
FROST: THE ____ ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP./ BUT I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP |
WOODS |
MAYA ANGELOU: TUNE IS HEARD ON THE DISTANT HILL/FOR THE CAGED BIRD SINGS OF ____. |
FREEDOM |
LEWIS CARROLL: BEWARE THE JUBJUB BIRD, AND SHUN/THE FRUBIOUS ____ |
BANDERSNATCH |
W.B. YEATS: ALL CHANGED, CHANGED UTTERLY/ A TERRIBLE ____ IS BORN |
BEAUTY |
SHAKESPEARE: SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?/ THOU ART MORE LOVELY, AND MORE ____ |
TEMPERATE |
DYLAN THOMAS: OLD AGE SHOULD BURN AND RAVE AT CLOSE OF DAY/ ____,____ AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT |
RAGE,RAGE |
GINSBERG: I SAW THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION DESTROYED BY/ ____, STARVING HYSTERICAL NAKED, |
MADNESS |
RICHARD LOVELACE: I COULD NOT LOVE THEE DEAR, SO MUCH/ LOVED I NOT ____ MORE |
HONOUR |
DICKINSON: "____ IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS/ THAT PERCHES IN THE SOUL |
HOPE |
LANGSTON HUGHES: MAYBE IT JUST SAGS/ LIKE A HEAVY LOAD/ OR DOES IT____? |
EXPLODE |
G.M.HOPKINS: GLORY BE TO GOD FOR ____ THINGS/FOR SKIES OF COUPLE-COLOUR AS A BRINDED COW |
DAPPLED |
JOHN MCCRAE: IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE ____ GROW/ BETWEEN THE CROSSES ROW ON ROW |
POPPIES |
SHEL SILVERSTEIN: FOR THE CHILDREN, THEY MARK, AND THE CHILDREN, THEY KNOW/ THE PLACE WHERE THE ____ ENDS |
SIDEWALK |
BLAKE: TILL WE HAVE BUILT ____/ IN ENGLAND'S GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND. |
JERUSALEM |
WHITMAN: DO I ____ MYSELF?/ VERY WELL THEN, I ____ MYSELF,/ (I AM LARGE, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES) |
CONTRADICT |
"THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL" |
OSCAR WILDE |
"IN FLANDER'S FIELDS" |
JOHN MCCRAE |
"FERN HILL" |
DYLAN THOMAS |
"BURNT NORTON" |
T.S. ELIOT |
"LONDON, 1802" |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
"CONCORD HYMN" |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
"EL DORADO" |
POE |
"HARLEM" |
LANGSTON HUGHES |
"A SHROPSHIRE LAD" |
A.E. HOUSMAN |
"THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST" |
WALLACE STEVENS |
"CHICAGO" |
CARL SANDBURG |
"DOVER BEACH" |
MATTHEW ARNOLD |
"ENGLAND IN 1819" |
SHELLEY |
"I HEAR AMERICA SINGING" |
WALT WHITMAN |
"THE DEFENSE OF FORT MCHENRY" |
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY |
"SAILING TO BYZANTIUM" |
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
"ANNIE ALLEN" |
GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
"WE REAL COOL" |
GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
NIKKI GIOVANI'S BOOK "LOVE POEMS" WAS WRITTEN IN MEMORY OF THIS RAPPER |
TUPAC SHAKUR |
"THOMAS AND BEULAH" |
RITA DOVE |
"THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH" |
RITA DOVE |
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" COMMISSIONED HER TO WRITE AN INAUGURAL POEM FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA |
NIKKI GIOVANNI |
2011 U.S. POET LAUREATE |
PHILIP LEVINE |
THIS BRITISH POET LAUREATE WROTE "RINGS" FOR THE ROYAL WEDDING OF WILLIAM & KATE MIDDLETON |
CAROL ANN DUFFY |