| Years | Famous Work | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| c. 8th Century BC | The Iliad (perhaps?) | Homer | 94%
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| 1809-1849 | The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | 87%
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| 1564-1616 | Sonnet 18 | William Shakespeare | 84%
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| 1608-1674 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | 69%
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| 1795-1821 | Ode to a Nightingale | John Keats | 58%
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| 43 BC-17/18 AD | Metamorphoses | Ovid | 57%
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| 1792-1822 | Ozymandias | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 57%
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| 1759-1796 | Auld Lang Syne | Robert Burns | 56%
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| 1809-1892 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 55%
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| 1788-1824 | She Walks in Beauty | Lord Byron | 55%
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| 1757-1827 | The Tyger | William Blake | 46%
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| 1772-1834 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 45%
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| 1770-1850 | The Prelude | William Wordsworth | 44%
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| 1819-1892 | Songs of Myself | Walt Whitman | 38%
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| 1928-2014 | And Still I Rise | Maya Angelou | 35%
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| 1572-1631 | Death Be Not Proud | John Donne | 24%
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| 1930-1998 | Pike | Ted Hughes | 20%
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| 1939-2013 | Death of a Naturalist | Seamus Heaney | 12%
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| 1955- | War Photographer | Carol Ann Duffy | 8%
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| 1963- | Remains | Simon Armitage | 7%
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