Famous Poets Quiz

Poem Title	Poet
Paradise Lost
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
Kubla Khan
Prometheus
Ode to the West Wind
Ode to a Nightingale
Sonnet 43 ('How do I love thee? Let me count the ways')
The Raven
The Lady of Shalott
Song of Myself (from 'Leaves of Grass')

Poem Title	Poet
'I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'
Easter 1916
The Road Not Taken
The Waste Land
i carry your heart with me
Harlem
Howl
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
A Song of Despair/una canción desesperada
Lady Lazarus

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	magister:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 22:28 GMT		8 points
	it happens

	Librería:	Oct 19th, 2008 at 04:11 GMT		0 points
	Why does Tennyson work for Alfred, but Lord Byron doesn't work for his poem?

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	ottoman:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 00:25 GMT		-1 points
	I think the biggest lacunae are the non-"classic" poets who are not as popular(in other words, people like Pound, Ashbery,Spenser, Houseman, et cetera). I too, however, noticed Pound as a serious omission(possibly due to the extordinary difficulty of his principle work). Robert Browning and Auden would have been nice as well. Oh well, we could all go on and on about poets who should have been included

	onetheta:	Mar 4th, 2009 at 10:48 GMT		6 points
	How about giving the second entry its correct title rather than its first line.

	Xygni:	Apr 14th, 2009 at 09:03 GMT		7 points
	It's Edgar Allan, not Allen.

	Robyn:	May 21st, 2009 at 04:19 GMT		2 points
	Yeah, to only typing last names. Got Browning when I meant Robert.

	micah:	May 22nd, 2009 at 19:04 GMT		1 point
	Why are we allowed to misspell Ginsberg's name?

	fizzding:	Sep 19th, 2009 at 04:13 GMT		1 point
	i love how ee cummings name is capitalized he would hate that ;)

	ablackperson:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 19:00 GMT		0 points
	20/20, but only on my second try. Yikes...I am so bad with 20th century poets. I only knew cummings because nothing was capitalized, and I only knew Neruda because it was in Spanish. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go write a paper on The Faerie Queene and then kill myself.

	JSails:	Dec 18th, 2009 at 12:32 GMT		-2 points
	you forgot the greatest poet of them all... Christopher George Latore Wallace

	elise222:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 01:03 GMT		1 point
	Should accept "Lord Byron," and e.e. cummings should be lowercased.

	AdamBishop:	Mar 7th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT		1 point
	Damn you Walt Whitman! Leaves of Grass my ass!

	Retracto:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 11:49 GMT		0 points
	Good selection of poetry people are likely to remember from college. But like the people said, "Allan" is misspelled, and e.e. cummings written in lowercase.

	midnight_dreary:	May 15th, 2010 at 12:47 GMT		0 points
	I swear I put in Elizabeth Browning, and it didn't come up.

	monstro:	Oct 12th, 2010 at 19:24 GMT		7 points
	Good grief, folks, poets aren't like U.S. states, where you can sit down and just make a complete list. (Although you wouldn't know it from how poetry is taught in universities.) This is obviously not intended to be a catalog of EVERY good poet. Have fun playing the quiz, and if for some reason it's important to you that your favorite poet be included, feel free to make your own quiz.

	CatStarcatcher:	Jun 12th, 2012 at 19:50 GMT		2 points
	I read somewhere that Cummings always spelt his name with capitals. It was his editors who decided his name should match his poems!

	Ember_Nickel:	Dec 8th, 2012 at 22:25 GMT		1 point
	I would force answers in order.

	thebigbigcheese:	Mar 25th, 2013 at 17:54 GMT		0 points
	How brilliant that Wordsworth became a poet. Shakespeare should have been a lance-wielding soldier though... and cummings... say no more...