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In the poem, Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, how does the poem start?
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What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: "Men of England" and England in 1819?
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In which of his poems did Percy Bysshe Shelley blame the critics for John Keats’ premature death?
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What relation was Mary Shelley to Percy Bysshe Shelley?
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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."
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To whom does "Adonais" refer in Percy Bysshe Shelley's eponymous poem?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley were?
 
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WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
Was written by
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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 ...
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From what poem do the following opening lines come:
I met a traveller from an antique land
who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.
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ROMANTIC POETRY
OZYMANDIAS
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"I met a traveler from ______________________ (?)
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Which poet gave the following explanation on one of his own works, and which work is he referring to?
"I intended to delineate the feelings of one of the last of the Greek religious philosophers, one of the family of Orpheus and Musaeus, having survived his fellows, living on into a time when the habits of Greek thought and feeling had begun fast to change, character to dwindle, the influence of the Sophists to prevail. Into the feelings of a man so situated there entered much that we are accustomed to consider as exclusively modern (...) What those who are familiar only with the great monuments of early Greek genius suppose to be its exclusive characteristics, have disappeared; the calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared: the dialogue of the mind with itself has commenced; modem problems have presented themselves; we hear already the doubts, we witness the discouragement, of Hamlet and of Faust."
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About which creatures is Percy Bysshe Shelley writing here?
"You would not easily guess
All the modes of distress
Which torture the tenants of earth;
And the various evils,
Which like so many devils,
Attend the poor souls from their birth."
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Who wrote the sonnet, "On Mrs. Reynold's Cat", the first part of which goes:
"Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroy'd?--How many tit bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears--but pr'ythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me--and upraise
Thy gentle mew--and tell me all thy frays
Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick.
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Who is greeted thus, by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit"?
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Which poet said:
"Love itself shall slumber on" in one of his poems?
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Who wrote the poem "Ozymandias", on which the character in Watchmen by Alan Moore is based?
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"With his speculative opinions, I have nothing in common, nor desire to have."
"He was a liar and a cheat; he paid no regard to truth, nor to any kind of moral obligation."
"He had a fire in his eye, a fever in his blood, a maggot in his brain, a hectic flutter in his speech, which mark out the philosophic fanatic."
"No one was ever wiser or better for reading ___________."
Which author was held in such low esteem by Lord Byron, Robert Southey, William Hazlitt & Charles Lamb (as demonstrated by their quotes above)?
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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."
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The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon
Name the quoted poet: "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Identify the poet:
"No more -- no more -- Oh! never more on me
The freshness of the heart can fall like dew,
Which out of all the lovely things we see
Extracts emotions beautiful and new;
Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee."
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And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
Who wrote these lines?
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne,
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet: "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?"
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that ofttimes hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
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