O for a draught of Keats!

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1. This sonnet sparked Keats's literary fame in 1816. When I have fears that I may cease to be On First Looking into Chapman's Homer On Seeing the Elgin Marbles Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art

2. Keats wrote many Odes. In "Ode on Melancholy," Keats encourages the reader (or, perhaps, himself) to "go not" to which river from classical mythology? Acheron Alpheus Styx Lethe

3. To/on which of these did Keats NOT write an ode? Indolence Psyche May Sleep

4. In an ode to/on this, Keats writes: "What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape / Of deities or mortals, or of both, / In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?" Psyche Nightingale Indolence A Grecian Urn

5. This ode is prefaced with this passage from Scripture: "They toil not, neither do they spin". Ode to Psyche Ode on Melancholy Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode on Indolence

6. In this ode, from which this quiz derives its title, Keats writes the following lines: "Darkling I listen; and, for many a time / I have been half in love with easful Death, / Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, / To take into the air my quiet breath; / Now more than ever seems it rich to die,..." Ode on Melancholy Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode on Indolence

7. Which is said to be Keats's last sonnet? When I have fears that I may cease to be Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art On Seeing the Elgin Marbles After dark vapours have oppress'd our plains

8. Keats wrote some longer poems too. This one tells the tale of a mortal searching for an immortal goddess whom he has seen in several visions. Lamia Hyperion The Eve of St. Agnes Endymion

9. In this longer poem, the subject encounters Saturn in his shrine. Endymion The Fall of Hyperion Lamia The Eve of St. Agnes

10. "The Eve of St. Agnes" is written as a sequence of stanzas. Who created this stanza form? William Shakespeare Edmund Spenser Sir Philip Sydney Keats created his own form

11. While on the subject, who is St. Agnes? the patron saint of virgins the patron saint of marriage the patron saint of poets the patron saint of beauty

12. Keats wrote a sonnet to this famous poet, in which he wrote: "Standing aloof in giant ignorance, / Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades, / As one who sits ashore and longs perchance / To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas". Virgil Shakespeare Homer Chaucer

13. Keats wrote many letters in addition to poetry. To whom in particular did he write many love letters? Lucy Gray Fanny Brawne Georgiana Keats Mary Shelley

14. In what poem does a wanton woman entrance a "woebegone" knight with her beauty and playfulness, only to lead him into a despairing state of solitude. The Fall of Hyperion Lamia La Belle Dame Sans Merci The Eve of St. Agnes

15. Befitting of a final question, unless it's already come upon you, this poem ends, "Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, / And seal the hushed casket of my soul." Ode on Melancholy When I have fears that I may cease to be Sonnet to Sleep Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art