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"The Nation's Favourite Poems" Name the Author

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The Nations Favourite Poems Name the Author game quiz
"All poems are taken from the BBC's book: "The Nation's Favourite Poems." I will give you two lines from each poem and ask you to pick the author."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. These opening lines: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..." are from a poem written by whom?
    T.S Eliot
    Thomas Hardy
    Rudyard Kipling
    Robert Frost


2. Which poet composed the following: "And thro' the field the road runs by/ To many tower'd Camelot"?
    Roger McGough
    William Wordsworth
    Alfred , Lord Tennyson
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge


3. "'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller/ Knocking on the moonlit door..." are famous lines from a poem written by which poet?
    Walter De La Mare
    Rudyard Kipling
    W.B Yeats
    Percy Bysshe Shelley


4. Who wrote a poem including the following lines: "I was much further out than you thought/ And not waving but drowning"?
    Stevie Smith
    Robert Browning
    Christina Rossetti
    T.S Eliot


5. Which poet wrote a poem containing the lines: "I wander'd lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills..."?
    Michael Rosen
    William Wordsworth
    Oscar Wilde
    D.H Lawrence


6. "In all my dreams, before my helpless sight/ He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning," is a snippet from a poem by which of the following poets?
    Thomas Hardy
    Wendy Cope
    Oscar Wilde
    Wilfred Owen


7. Which of the poets below wrote the following lines: "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths/ Enwrought with golden and silver light..."?
    T.S Eliot
    W.B Yeats
    Michael Rosen
    Christina Rossetti


8. Which poet wrote a poem that includes the following lines:
"Remember me when I am gone away/ Gone far away into the silent land..."?
    Wendy Cope
    Christina Rossetti
    Oscare Wilde
    William Blake


9. "See the mountains kiss high heaven/ And the waves clasp one another," are lines composed by which famous poet, given below?
    Robert Browning
    Robert Frost
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Percy Bysshe Shelley


10. The following lines: "And the Raven, never fitting, still is sitting-still is sitting/ On the pallid bust of pallas just above my chamber door," were written as part of a poem by which of the poets given below?
    Wendy Cope
    D.H Lawrence
    T.S Eliot
    Edgar Allan Poe


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