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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
So you think you know your poetry? Your spondee from your anapest? Your Robert Frost from your Robert Browning? Can you name these 10 well-known poets based on the clues provided? Find out by taking the next in our series of Who Am I? quizzes: Poets.
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Why is T. S. Eliot not accepted as an answer? I’ve never seen his work published under his full names.
posted by faburobin on 4-4-2008 at 12:52 pm
I got 70%; would have been 80% if you took ‘Plath’ instead of the whole name. Oh, well. Still pretty good for me on a quiz like this. (I also did that thing I do where I mix up Burroughs and Ginsberg, but that’s a whole different problem.)
@ faburobin - I got that to work, but I didn’t use periods…
posted by Roger on 4-4-2008 at 1:14 pm
Argh.. I used last names to no avail.
Meh, I only knew Dickinson, Plath, and Ginsberg anyway.
posted by Zach on 4-4-2008 at 3:00 pm
I would’ve scored 70% if only your quiz had accepted the below :
T S Eliot
Correct answer:
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Picky, picky!
posted by Amy on 4-4-2008 at 11:49 pm