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Ten Famous Sonnets

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Introduction:
"Here are ten famous examples of the world's best known and most loved poetic form, the sonnet."


1. What world-renowned English playwright also wrote sonnets, including the one stating 'Love's not Time's fool'?
    Jonson
    Marlowe
    Fletcher
    Shakespeare


2. What poet wrote the sonnet that supplied John Gunther with the title to his best known book 'Death Be Not Proud'?
    Herbert
    Marvell
    Donne
    Lovelace


3. What poet's sonnet is best known for the last line, 'They also serve who only stand and wait'?
    Milton
    Waller
    Cowper
    Gray


4. Who wrote a sonnet on Westminster Bridge (literally)?
    Coleridge
    Shelley
    Wordsworth
    Keats


5. Who wrote a sonnet on the ruins of an ancient king's statue?
    Wordsworth
    Shelley
    Keats
    Coleridge


6. What poet spoke of the wrong Spanish explorer in a sonnet?
    Keats
    Wordsworth
    Shelley
    Coleridge


7. What poet asked in a sonnet, 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...'?
    Answer: (Three Words( Wife of another poet))


8. What novelist also wrote a sonnet called 'Hap'?
    Jane Austen
    William Thackeray
    Thomas Hardy
    Charles Dickens


9. What Jesuit priest once said in a sonnet 'The world is filled with the grandeur of God'?
    Answer: (Three Words initials G M H)


10. Finally, a modern sonnet, about a white spider on a white cure-all about to eat a white moth. Name the poet.
    Sandburg
    Benet
    Millay
    Frost


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