AP Lit Poetry Proof Of Knowledge Background (copy)

After _____ died in a drowning accident, his friends cremated him on the beach

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Contemporary critics called this poet a "working class 'Cockney poet."

John Keats

From childhood on, this poet lead a sequestered and obscure life.

Thomas Gray

Nature was almost a religion to _____.

William Wordsworth

The most popular (and possible most important) Victorian poet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The poet who died of tuberculosis at early age was

John Keats

The poet who wrote in Scottish dialect was

Robert Burns

The pre-eminent Irish poet of the twentieth century

William Butler Yeats

This poet burned all of his early poetry after converting to Roman Catholicism

Gerard Manley Hopkins

This poet spent a year in France, hoping to witness the French Revolution first hand.

William Wordsworth

This poet was known as the "hot-tempered poet of the people" in youth but as the "good gray poet" in maturity.

Walt Whitman

This poet wrote early 1800 poems, all but a very few were published posthumously

Emily Dickinson

This poet's heart is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

John Keats

Which poet is also famous as a novelist?

Thomas Hardy

Which poet is regarded by many as the greatest of the Romantic poets?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Which poet was also an artist and a visionary?

William Blake

Which poet was involved in Irish Nationalism and mysticism?

W. B. Yeats

Which poet was known for poetic experimentation and for innovations such as "sprung rhythm?"

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Which poet's poetic reputation was overshadowed by that of his wife during his lifetime?

Robert Browning

Who co-authored the Lyrical Ballads? (Be prepared to know both/either).

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

William Blake