Who wrote the poem 'In Flanders Fields'?
Answer
John McCrae
80 Poetry Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which ancient Greek poet wrote 'Theogony'?
Answer
Hesiod
Who translated the 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English?
Answer
Edward FitzGerald
Who wrote the World War I poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est'?
Answer
Wilfred Owen
Which Roman poet wrote 'Metamorphoses'?
Answer
Ovid
Which T.S. Eliot poem begins 'Let us go then, you and I'?
Answer
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Who wrote the poem 'The Second Coming'?
Answer
W.B. Yeats
Who wrote the poem 'Song of Myself'?
Answer
Walt Whitman
Who wrote the poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'?
Answer
William Wordsworth
'O Captain! My Captain!' mourns the death of which US president?
Answer
Abraham Lincoln
Who wrote 'The Tyger'?
Answer
William Blake
What poetic form consists of 19 lines, five tercets and a quatrain?
Answer
Villanelle
What is the oldest known surviving Old English poem?
Answer
Cædmon's Hymn
Who wrote the poem containing the line 'I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul'?
Answer
William Ernest Henley
Which poet wrote the modernist poem 'The Waste Land'?
Answer
T.S. Eliot
In which century did Dante complete 'The Divine Comedy'?
Answer
14th century
Who is the author of the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
Answer
John Milton
Who wrote the poem 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?
Answer
John Keats
What is the title of Coleridge's narrative poem about an ancient mariner?
Answer
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Which poet wrote 'Hope is the thing with feathers'?
Answer
Emily Dickinson
Which English poet wrote Sonnet 18, 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'?
Answer
William Shakespeare
Who wrote the poem 'Do not go gentle into that good night'?
Answer
Dylan Thomas