Scholar Bowl - Poets
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Who 13-14th century Italian poet who wrote Divine Comedy?
Dante Alighieri
Who was this English romantic writer whose works include the Prelude and Tintern Abbey?
William Wordsworth
Who was this English poet, born in London, who wrote the Tyger and Songs of Innocence and Experience?
William Blake
Who was this scottish poet who talked of "timorous beasts" and turned folk songs into poems; the writer of Auld Lang Syne and A Red, Red Rose?
Robert Burns
Who was the poet of odes, saying that "beauty is truth, truth beauty," and wrote the Ode to a Nightingale along with others of indolence and melancholy?
John Keats
Who was this former revolutionary turned poet, who died in the greek war of independence, saying "a heart whose love is innocent," the author of Don Juan and She Walks in Beauty?
King Byron
Who was this American poet who wrote of death and gore, a man who honored Lincoln, the author of "O Captain my Captain" and Leaves of Grass?
Walt Whitman
Who was this American poet who wrote about nature and hurricanes, the author of "Paul Revere's Ride" and Tales of a Wayside Inn?
Henry Longfellow
Who was this American author known for writing short stories, like the Raven?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who was this 19th century British poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who was the author of Les Miserables?
Victor Hugo
Who was this American poet, the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
Who was this significant poet of the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
Who was this American 20th century poet who has spoken at inaugurations and wrote Howl along with Caddish?
Allen Ginsberg
Who is the American poet who talked of "good fences make good neighbors" and "two paths diverged", the author of Mending Wall?
Robert Frost
Who is this poet who formerly worked as an ambulance driver and used odd capitalization and punctuation?
E.E. Cummings
Who was this Chilean poet who inspired Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
Pablo Neruda
Who was this german poet, the author of Faust?
Goethe
Who was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
Who was this English poet of the Romantic Era, the scribe of Kubla Khan and Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who was this English poet of Elegy written in a churchyard?
Thomas Gray
Who was this welsh, 20th century poet of Do not go Gentle into the Good Night?
Dylan Thomas
Who was this female 20th century poet who commited suicide? The author of Daddy?
Sylvia Plath
Who was this American political essayist who wrote the Wasteland?
T.S. Elliot
Who is the victorian poet known for her sonnets and being married to another poet?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning