Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale ?’

A. George bernard shaw
B. John dryden
C. Christopher marlowe
D. William shakespeare

Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry ?

A. William carlos williams
B. Emily dickinson
C. Gerard manly hopkins
D. Robert frost

From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date ?

A. The 12th
B. The 14th
C. The 17th
D. The 19th

What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?

A. Alliterative
B. Epic
C. Acrostic
D. Haiku

’The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when ?

A. The 1900’s
B. The 1960’s
C. The 1920’s
D. The 1930’s

Sylvia Plath married which English poet ?

A. Masefield
B. Causley
C. Hughes
D. Larkin

Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?

A. Emily dickinson
B. Paul dunbar
C. John greenleaf whittier
D. Walt whitman

In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet with triumph and _____________’?

A. Glory
B. Ruin
C. Disaster
D. Victory

Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?

A. Nature
B. Epics
C. Sonnets
D. Nonsense

Harold Nicholson described which poet as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’ ?

A. E. e. cummings
B. T. s. elliot
C. John greenleaf whittier
D. Walt whitman