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  The title of Northrup Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake comes from which of the following poems by William Blake?

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Correct: 4965 times (41.3%)
Difficulty: medium
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  William Blake wrote "Songs of Innocence and _________." see if you know the answer
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  What is William Blake's poem, Jerusalem, about?
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  If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry containing the following tale?

"On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slanting,
I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.
Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,
(He) was talking to a Raven perched above the chamber door.
(...)

Still the Raven never fluttered, standing stock-still as he uttered,
In a voice that schrieked and sputtered, his two cents' worth --
'Nevermore.'

While this dirge the birdbrain kept up, oh, so silently I crept up,
Then I crouched and quickly leapt up, pouncing on the feathered bore.
Soon he was a heap of plumage, and a little blood and gore --
Only this and not much more." 		see if you know the answer
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From [b:Songs of Innocence And of Experience|171547|Songs of Innocence And of Experience|William Blake|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172388949s/171547.jpg|24839] by [a:William Blake|13453|William Blake|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1199069675p2/13453.jpg], what words end the lines in this stanza of 'The Tyger'? What the hammer? what the _____? In what furnace was thy _____? What the anvil? what dread _____ Dare its deadly terrors _____? From Songs of Innocence And of Experience by William Blake, what words end the lines in this stanza of 'The Tyger'?

What the hammer? what the _____?
In what furnace was thy _____?
What the anvil? what dread _____
Dare its deadly terrors _____? 		see if you know the answer
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  Which English Romantic poet did Henry James refer to as "the child of the Gods"? see if you know the answer
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." He was an English poet who became one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. He died in 1821 at the age of 25 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome." "Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream," Who was he? "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
He was an English poet who became one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. He died in 1821 at the age of 25 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome."
"Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream," Who was he? 		see if you know the answer
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  From which author’s work did William Thackeray derive the title of his novel Vanity Fair?
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  "The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!"

... is the beginning of a poem by ... 		see if you know the answer
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  Who wrote these lines?

"Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which husbandry in honour might uphold
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?" 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
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  Who wrote these words?

"O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee will;
Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
As tender nurse her babe from faring ill." 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
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  Who wrote these words:

"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past, ..."? 		see if you know the answer
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  Who wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese A Celebration 0f Love? see if you know the answer
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  Who wrote Ballad of Reading Gaol? see if you know the answer
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  For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne! 		see if you know the answer
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  Who wrote the epic poem "Milton"? see if you know the answer
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  Who wrote The four zoas The torments of love and jealousy in the death and judgment of Albion the Ancient Man? see if you know the answer
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  From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:

Name the quoted poet: "What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
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  This stanza comes from a long poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning dealing with which poet? His surname is left blank in this quotation:

"It went up from the Holy's lips amid his
lost creation,
That, of the lost, no son should use those
words of desolation!
That Earth's worst frenzies, marring
hope, should mar not hope's fruition,
And I, on _______'s grave, should see his
rapture in a vision." 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: very difficult
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  To which poet is Anne Brontë addressing these lines?

“Sweet are thy strains, celestial Bard;
And oft, in childhood’s years,
I’ve read them o’er and o’er again,
With floods of silent tears.

The language of my inmost heart,
I traced in every line;
My sins, my sorrows, hopes and fears,
Were there – and only mine.

All for myself the sigh would swell,
The fear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet’s heart.” 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 70 times
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Difficulty: very difficult
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  The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon

Name the quoted poet: "Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang." 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
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  The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon

Name the quoted poet:

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 100 times
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Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 45 times (36.9%)
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  From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:

Name the quoted poet:

It moves us not. -Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 40 times
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Difficulty: difficult
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  Who wrote these lovely lines?

"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this sunburnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 40 times
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Difficulty: medium
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  Who wrote these lovely lines?

"How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
How heaven laughs out with glee
Where, like a bird set free,
Up from the eastern sea
Soars the delightful day." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 38 times
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Difficulty: medium
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  Who wrote these lovely lines?

"O what is that sound which so thrills the ear
Down in the valley drumming, drumming?
Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,
The soldiers coming." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 42 times
Correct: 19 times (33.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 23 times (41.1%)
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