Poetry Trivia Quizzes

William Blake's "Jerusalem" is well known as both a poem and a hymn (as set to music by Sir Hubert Parry). Can you fill in the blanks in the text with the correct words on the right?

How much poetry do you really know? This quiz covers a mixture of poetry from British and American poets.

Dig into this poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Pick the poet or the poem.

Learn more about this Romantic era poem, which enjoyed great popularity in Victorian times and has continued to have influence today.

A quiz on American poems and poets. The questions will bring together some well known verse with some not as well known poets and also some well known poets with some lesser known poems. Good luck!

Fun Trivia team Poetic License has taken upon itself to write a team quiz. Since our name is Poetic License due to our liberal massacre of the English language, we have opted to do our quiz on our favorite individual poets. Good luck and have fun.

Have you ever wanted to be a poet? Why not learn from these best of British? All questions will be multiple choice.

This wonderful prose poem, "Desiderata" (Latin for "desired things"), copyrighted in 1927 by Max Ehrmann, is about attaining happiness in life. I adopted "Desiderata" as my credo as a teen in the early 1970s. I hope you like it as much as I do!

William Harmon edited a book entitled "The Top 500 Poems", which contains all the top 500 English-language poems, as determined by how frequently each poem has been anthologized. Here are questions about the top ten of those 500 poems.