Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. This early modernist author wrote a number of pessimist novels in the late 19th century. Due to the hostile reception of his latest novel he decided to start writing poetry (again). Although he is far more known for his novels, you may also remember him from the following poems: 'Hap', 'The Darkling Thrush', 'A Trampwoman's Tragedy' and 'Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave'. Who is this author?
2. The following four poets are known as the 'World War I poets'. As a matter of fact only one of them survived World War I. Who is that lucky poet?
3. Which poet wrote these famous poems: 'Easter 1916', 'No Second Troy' and 'Sailing to Byzantium'?
4. 1922 was the year of what are considered to be the greatest modernist novel and the greatest modernist poem. The novel of course is 'Ullysses' by James Joyce. What is the the name of the poem, beginning with the lines 'April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain'?
5. In his poem 'Musee des Beaux Arts', W.H. Auden describes the painting '(The Fall of) Icarus'. Which Flemish painter made this painting?
6. Which Welsh poet wrote the following opening stanza of a great villanelle:'Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light'?
7. Which of the following was never poet laureate?
8. 'The Movement' was a group of poets that included Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie and Thom Gunn, whose work reacted against what seemed to them 'the verbal excesses of Dylan Thomas, Edith Sitwell and others'. Which poet, known for his Hardyesque pessimism is regarded as the dominant figure of 'The Movement'?
9. What Irish poet received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995?
10. What poet launched the so-called 'Martian School' of poetry with his poem 'A Martian sends a Postcard Home'?
Source: Author
marienbart
This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor
looney_tunes before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
