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1. Per the Robert Frost poem, where do two roads diverge?

2. Who wrote 'Paradise Lost' to 'justify the ways of God to man,' then wrote a shorter sequel called 'Paradise Regained'?

3. Also known as the Ploughman Poet, what Bard of Ayrshire was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, in 1759?

4. What nationality was the famous poet Jean Blewett?

5. In the play 'Richelieu,' Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote, 'Beneath the rule of men entirely great/The pen is mightier than ....' what?

6. Which poet wrote 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'?

7. Complete the title of a famous work by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the ....'?

8. One of John Keats most famous poems is an ode 'To' what season?

9. What good gay poet was known as 'the Good Gray Poet'?

10. What does the 'B' stand for in the name of the poet W.B. Yeats?

11. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 for his services to poetry?

12. Barely five feet tall, who passed the exam to become an apothecary-surgeon, went on vacation, and came back a poet instead?

13. What does the S stand for in the name of T.S. Eliot?

14. What poet converted to Catholicism, only to lose his position as poet laureate when England switched back under William III?

15. Laugh, and the world laughs with you. According to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, what happens when you weep?

16. In the 1940s, two of the top Beat icons, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, met for the first time at what New York university?

17. William Wordsworth died in which year?

18. In the last time of what Robert Browning poem does an Italian girl note that, 'God's in his heaven,all's right with the world'?

19. John Donne wrote that no man is what geographic feature?

20. In the second-last line of Thomas Gray's 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,' what is described as bliss?

21. To whom did Lady Caroline Lamb send clippings of her pubic hair, in an envelope addressed 'From Your Wild Antelope'?

22. Originally, I self-published 'Leaves of Grass' anonymously, selling about three dozen copies. Who am I?

23. Which famous poem begins with the line 'On either side the river lie, long fields of barley and of rye'?

24. In which US State was Erza Pound born?

25. In 'Pippa Passes,' a little Italian girl sings, 'God's in his heaven--All's right with the world.' Who wrote that?

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