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