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Poetry 0004

This is the last of our poetry quizzes and indeed the last of our alphabetical listing of books quizzes. To finish on an easy question stop at No. 5 (asking about the number of lines in a limerick) but for something a little more difficult see it through to the bitter end and the question about A E Houseman!

  1. In Robert Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the Piper leads the rats into which river?

  2. Which American poet wrote a series of humorous verses to accompany the Saint-Saens musical work The Carnival of the Animals?

  3. Who wrote the 1814 poem She Walks in Beauty?

  4. Who was the first person to be interred in Poets' Corner in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey?

  5. How many lines are there in a limerick?

  6. One of Pam Ayres' poems is I Wish I'd Looked After Me what?

  7. Which Liverpool poet was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s?

  8. Which English poet died in 1864 in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum?

  9. Which English Poet Laureate also wrote the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights?

  10. What was the title of the cycle of sixty-three poems published by A E Houseman in 1896?

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