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I Read Some Byron and Shelley and Keats...

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Introduction:
"Do you know Romantic poetry? Take this to find out..."


1. Give me Shelley's full name (and yes, spelling does count. That's the whole point of this question!)
    Answer: (Three Words)


2. What is the name of the man who writes the letter in Byron's "Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play"?
    Doug Carey
    John Murray
    Ken Curry
    Bill Torrey


3. Fill in the blanks: "To see a World in a _____
___ ______ / And a Heaven in a _____
_____ / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an ____"
    grain of sand, high tower, hour
    distant land, high tower, hour
    distant land, wild flower, hour
    grain of sand, wild flower, hour


4. Which epic poem in seven parts features an Albatross, two ships, Death and Life-in-Death, impersonated by a woman, and lots of ice?
    "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (Robert Browning)
    "Ode to the West Wind" (Shelley)
    "Ode to a Grecian Urn" (John Keats)
    "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)


5. A poem featuring a stunningly wide range of vocabulary to describe water coming down a cataract is "The Cataract of Lodore (described in rhymes for the nursery)." Who wrote this poem?
    John Keats
    William Wordsworth
    Robert Burns
    Robert Southey


6. Who wrote, among others, those beautiful poems: "Ode to a Nightingale," "To Autumn," "Over the hill and over the dale," and "To Sleep"?
    John Keats
    William Butler Yeats
    William Blake
    Henry David Thoreau


7. According to Blake, what four characteristics form "The Divine Image"?
    Love, Forgiveness, Sympathy and Understanding
    Love, Pity, Understanding and Forgiveness
    Mercy, Love, Sympathy and Peace
    Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love


8. Which bird did Wordsworth describe as "Ethereal minstrel! Pilgrim of the sky!"?
    nightingale
    robin
    white dove
    skylark


9. "To a Mouse - on turning her up in her nest with the plough, November 1785" - who wrote this moving little poem?
    John Clare
    Robert Burns
    James Leigh Hunt
    Lord Byron


10. In James Elroy Flecker's "Gates of Damascus," which of the four gates is the "Postern of Fate"?
    West Gate
    South Gate
    North Gate
    East Gate


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