Poetry Trivia Questions
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May 26
Question:
What English poet, now known as second only to Shakespeare, was better known as a political pamphleteer during his lifetime?
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May 25
Question:
Who was the first English poet to compile his own collected works, an act disparaged by his contemporaries because he included plays, a literary form considered unworthy of publication?
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May 24
Question:
Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" is a classic poem of ingenuous entreaty. Which of Marlowe's fellow Elizabethans wrote a skeptical response to his poem?
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Sir Walter Ralegh. His "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" expresses doubts about the "truth in every shepherd's tongue."
May 23
May 22
Question:
Sir Thomas Wyatt often found himself in trouble for his relationship with Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn, yet he always managed to escape with his head. What other English sonneteer, related to Henry's fifth wife Catherine Howard, was not so fortunate?
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. After Catherine was executed for adultery, Surrey, her cousin, was also executed for having incorporated the royal seal into his coat of arms.
