Poetry Flashcards

1
Q

This poets first line in Sailing to Byzantium was the name of a classic novel and film

A

William Butler Yeats (there is no country for old men)

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2
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Poet that invented cribbage

A

Sir John Suckling
“Why so pale and wan”

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Whose works include Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark?

A

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 - 1822 (29)
Boating accident

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What appears works included:
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylar

A

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
Died in boating accident

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Who writhe “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and “My Last Duchess”?

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Robert Browning

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Who wrote the famous line “How do I love thee, let me count the ways” in a sonnet?

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

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