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Name Dropping #48: U.S. Poets - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 6 times
- The average score is 20 of 31
Answer Stats
| Hint | Extra Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Edgar Allen | 1809–1849. “The Raven”. | Poe | 100%
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| Elizabeth | 1911–1979. “The Man-Moth”. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1955); National Book Award for Poetry (1970); National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (1976); Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1976). | Bishop | 83%
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| Hart | 1899–1932. The Bridge. | Crane | 83%
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| E. E. | 1894–1962. “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in”. | Cummings | 83%
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| Emily | 1830–1886. “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”. | Dickinson | 83%
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| Ralph Waldo | 1803–1882. “Threnody”. | Emerson | 83%
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| Robert | 1874–1963. “The Road Not Taken”. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943); Congressional Gold Medal (1960). | Frost | 83%
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| William Dean | 1837–1920. “If”. | Howells | 83%
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| Langston | 1902–1967. “Harlem”. | Hughes | 83%
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| Henry Wadsworth | 1807–1882. “Paul Revere’s Ride”. | Longfellow | 83%
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| Jim | 1943–1971. An American Prayer. No poetry prizes, but was songwriter, lyricist and frontman for The Doors (1965–1971). | Morrison | 83%
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| Sylvia | 1932–1963. The Bell Jar. Fulbright Scholarship Glascock Prize (1955); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1982, posthumously). | Plath | 83%
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| Ezra | 1885–1972. “In a Station of the Metro”. Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1948). | Pound | 83%
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| Wallace | 1879–1955. Harmonium. Robert Frost Medal (1951). | Stevens | 83%
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| Walt | 1819–1892. Leaves of Grass. | Whitman | 83%
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| William Carlos | 1883–1963. “This Is Just to Say”. | Williams | 83%
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| Amiri (formerly known as LeRoi Jones) | 1934–2014. “Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note”. Poet Laureate of New Jersey (2002–2003); Langston Hughes Award (1989); induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001); others. | Baraka | 67%
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| Nikki | 1943–2024. “Knoxville, Tennessee”. Poet-in-Residence, California Institute of Technology (1966–1967). | Giovanni | 67%
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| Amanda | 1998–. “The Hill We Climb”. National Youth Poet Laureate (2017–2018); Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate (2014–2015); Read one of her poems at the Biden inauguration (2021). | Gorman | 67%
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| Carl | 1878–1967. Chicago Poems. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1919, 1940, 1951); Robert Frost Medal (1952); Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964). | Sandburg | 67%
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| Richard | 1935–1984. “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”. | Brautigan | 50%
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| Louise | 1897–1970. “To Be Sung On The Water”. | Bogan | 33%
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| Jim | 1949–2009. Organic Trains. Also known for prose writing and punk/new wave performances with the band Amsterdam and another, eponymous band. | Carroll | 33%
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| Countee | 1903–1946. “Yet Do I Marvel”. Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame (2013). | Cullen | 33%
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| Donald | 1893–1968. Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems. | Davidson | 33%
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| Jim | 1937–2016. Songs of Unreason. | Harrison | 33%
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| Kenneth | 1925–2002. The Art of Love: Poems. Fulbright Scholarship Glascock Prize (1948); Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1994); Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award (2000). | Koch | 33%
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| George | 1908–1984. Of Being Numerous. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1969). | Oppen | 33%
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| Tracy K. | 1972–. Life on Mars. Cave Canem Prize (2002); Whiting Award (2005); James Laughlin Award (2006); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2012); United States Poet Laureate (2017–2019). | Smith | 33%
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| Frank | 1939–. Metaphysical Dog. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2003, 2018); Bollingen Prize for Poetry (2007); many others. | Bidart | 17%
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| Terrance | 1971–. Muscular Music. National Book Award for Poetry (2010); MacArthur Fellowship (2014); many others. | Hayes | 17%
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