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Poets by Nationality/Distinguishing Fact. - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 21 times
- The average score is 23 of 40
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| Where they were from | Century | Famous Poem | Other Facts | Answer | % Correct |
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| Boston, Massachusetts. | 19th | "The Raven" | Ushered in an era of Dark Romanticism. | Edgar Allen Poe | 88%
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| Smyrna (present-day Greece) | 8th-7th Century BC | "The Iliad | Foundational Works | Homer | 88%
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| Dublin, Ireland | 19th | "A Vision" | Put on trial for gross indecency after his affair with a male British aristocrat | Oscar Wilde | 88%
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| Stratford-Upon-Avon | 16th-17th | "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" | Wrote many plays, referred to as "The Bard" | William Shakespeare | 88%
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| Florence, Italy | 13th-14th | "The Divine Comedy" | Humanist | Dante Alighieri | 82%
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| London. | 19th | “A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)” | 2nd generation Romantic | John Keats | 82%
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| London | 17th | "Paradise Lost" | Politics | John Milton | 82%
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| London. | 18th-19th | "The Tyger" | Painter and Poet of the Romantic Age | William Blake | 82%
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| Bombay Presidency, British India. | 19th-20th | "Gunga Din" | Also wrote "The Jungle Book" | Rudyard Kipling | 76%
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| Lesbos, Greece | 6th century BC | "Blame Aphrodite" | Lesbian Icon | Sappho | 76%
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| Cheshire, England | 19th | "Jabberwocky" | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 71%
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| London | 19th | "She walks in Beauty" | Member of the House of Lords | Lord Byron | 71%
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| Kensington, London | 20th | "Mrs Dalloway" | Stream of Consciousness, Drowned | Virginia Woolf | 71%
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| Lincolnshire, England | 19th | “The Charge of the Light Brigade” | Member of the House of Lords | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 65%
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| Parral, Chile. | 20th | “I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You” | Senator of the Republic of Chile | Pablo Neruda | 65%
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| Boston Massachusetts. | 20th | "Daddy" | Alienation | Sylvia Plath | 65%
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| Dublin, Ireland | 19th-20th | "The Second Coming" | Irish Literary Revival | William Butler Yeats | 65%
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| Cumberland England | 18th-19th | "The Prelude" | Launched the Romantic Age | William Wordsworth | 65%
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| Joplin, Missouri. | 20th | "I too Sing America" | One of the earliest innovators of "Jazz Poetry" | Langston Hughes | 59%
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| Horsham | 19th | "Ode to a Nightingale" | Drowned, 2nd Generation Romantic | Percy Byshe Shelly | 59%
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| St. Louis | 20th | "The Waste Land" | Modernist, reinvigorated art through language | T. S. Eliot | 59%
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts. | 20th | "i carry your heart with me" | WW1 Internment Camp | E. E. Cummings | 53%
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| Durham England | 19th | "How Do I love Thee" | Wrote about social issues | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 53%
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| Amherst, Massachusetts, | 19th | ""Hope" is the thing with the feathers" | Transcendentalism and Romanticism | Emily Dickinson | 53%
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| Concord Massachusetts | 19th | "Walden, or Life in the Woods" | Transcendentalism | Henry David Thoreau | 53%
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| Missouri. | 19th | “Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.” | Greatest Humorist, Haley's Comet | Mark Twain | 53%
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| Walworth, London | 19th | "My Last Duchess" | Dramatic Monologues | Robert Browning | 53%
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| Chicago, | 20th | "Where the Sidewalk Ends" | Dark Humor | Shel Silverstein | 53%
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| Boston Massachusetts | 19th | "Uriel" | Transcendentalism | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 47%
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| San Francisco, | 20th | "The Road Not Taken" | Rural New England Life | Robert Frost | 47%
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| Long Island, New York. | 19th | "I Hear America Singing" | "Father of Free Verse" | Walt Whitman | 47%
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| St. Louis. | 20th-21st | "On the Pulse of Evening" | Civil Right's activist, wrote plays movie and TV shows for more than 50 years | Maya Angelou | 41%
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| Portland Maine | 19th | “The Song of Hiawatha” | Translated "The Divine Comedy" to English | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 35%
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| London | 17th | "No Man is an Island" | Dean of St Paul's Cathedral | John Donne | 35%
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| Rye, New York | 20th | "Candy is Dandy" | Humor/Children | Ogden Nash | 35%
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| Dorset, England. | 19th | "Hap" | Victorian Realist, Romanticism | Thomas Hardy | 29%
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| Tang Empire | 8th | "Quiet Night Through" | Considered the most important Chinese poet | Li Bai | 24%
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| Hailey, Idaho | 20th | “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” | Early Modernist | Ezra Pound | 18%
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| London | 19th | "Goblin Market" | Children's poems | Christina Rosetti | 12%
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| Hyderabad, India | 20th | "The Bird of Time" | Indian Independence | Sarojini Naidu | 6%
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