Famous Poets
Instructions: Renowned poets and their most famous works
- 1.
Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
AJohn MiltonBGeoffrey ChaucerCWilliam ShakespeareDEdmund Spenser - 2.
Which American poet wrote 'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'?
AWalt WhitmanBRobert FrostCCarl SandburgDEmily Dickinson - 3.
Who is the author of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' and the poem 'Still I Rise'?
AMaya AngelouBGwendolyn BrooksCNikki GiovanniDLangston Hughes - 4.
Which English Romantic poet wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?
AJohn KeatsBLord ByronCPercy Bysshe ShelleyDWilliam Wordsworth - 5.
Who wrote the collection 'Leaves of Grass', celebrating American democracy and nature?
ARalph Waldo EmersonBEdgar Allan PoeCHenry Wadsworth LongfellowDWalt Whitman - 6.
Which poet penned 'The Raven' and is known for his dark, mysterious works?
AEdgar Allan PoeBHenry David ThoreauCHerman MelvilleDNathaniel Hawthorne - 7.
Which 13th-century Persian poet wrote the 'Masnavi', one of the greatest works of mystical poetry?
AHafezBRumiCFerdowsiDOmar Khayyam - 8.
Who wrote the famous poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'?
ASeamus HeaneyBT.S. EliotCDylan ThomasDW.B. Yeats - 9.
Which Scottish poet wrote 'Auld Lang Syne', traditionally sung on New Year's Eve?
ARobert BurnsBWalter ScottCRobert Louis StevensonDJames Macpherson - 10.
Who wrote 'The Waste Land', one of the most influential poems of the 20th century?
AWallace StevensBT.S. EliotCW.H. AudenDEzra Pound - 11.
Which reclusive American poet wrote nearly 1,800 poems, most published only after her death in 1886?
AEmily DickinsonBEdna St. Vincent MillayCElizabeth BishopDSylvia Plath - 12.
Who wrote the epic poem 'The Divine Comedy', describing a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise?
APetrarchBDante AlighieriCVirgilDGiovanni Boccaccio - 13.
Which poet wrote 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', inspired by a field of daffodils?
ASamuel Taylor ColeridgeBPercy Bysshe ShelleyCWilliam WordsworthDJohn Keats - 14.
Which Harlem Renaissance poet wrote 'A Dream Deferred' and 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'?
AClaude McKayBLangston HughesCCountee CullenDJames Weldon Johnson - 15.
Who wrote the long narrative poem 'The Canterbury Tales' in Middle English?
AJohn GowerBWilliam LanglandCThomas MaloryDGeoffrey Chaucer