| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | AMERICAN POETS $400: The woman we know as this submitted her first great work "Renascence", for a prize under the gender-hiding name E. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | AMERICAN POETS $800: "Some, Too Fragile for the Winter Winds" is a poem from this "Belle of Amherst" Dickinson |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | AMERICAN POETS $1200: In 1981, this poet's home on East 127th St. was declared a New York City landmark Hughes |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | AMERICAN POETS $1600: Louis, the father of this Beat Generation figure, was also a poet but wrote more traditional verse like "Morning in Spring" Ginsberg |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | AMERICAN POETS $2000: Sparing him a treason trial, this poet was declared insane in 1946 & spent the next 12 years in a hospital Ezra Pound |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT $400: Keats' "Ode on Melancholy" wants you to wallow in sadness, so "No, no, go not to" this mythic river of forgetfulness Lethe |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT $800: "One calm summer night", the title figure of this Edwin Arlington Robinson poem "went home and put a bullet through his head" Richard Corey |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT $1200: "The Awful Rowing Toward God" by this American was published in 1975, the year after she took her own life (Anne) Sexton |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT $1600: He wrote about how the world keeps spinning while we suffer & grieve in poems like "Musée des Beaux Arts" & "Funeral Blues" Auden |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT $2000: In "Sympathy", this poet wrote, "I know why the caged bird beats his wing till its blood is red on the cruel bars" (Paul Lawrence) Dunbar |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $400: Philip Larkin's "This Be the Verse" says, "They fill you with the faults they had & add some extra, just for you" parents (your mom & dad) |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $800: A sick kid has "two pillows at my head" in Stevenson's "Land of Counter-Pane"; a counterpane is this word with 2 rhyming syllables a bedspread |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): His "The Runaway" is not even his most famous poem with a horse in falling snow Robert Frost |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $1200: In 1920 his first poem to make a big splash mentioned Buffalo Bill & Jesus, with capital Bs & a capital J e.e. cummings |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Though it's often printed broken into short lines, his "No man is an island" is a prose passage; "Air & Angels", that's a poem John Donne |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $400: "Love Song" by this Algonquin Round Table member goes full vicious circle: "He is all my heart, & I wish somebody'd shoot him" (Dorothy) Parker |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $800: This poet who died young in Rome wrote, "Hither, hither, hither / Love this boon has sent-- / If I die & wither / I shall die content" Keats |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $1600: This Roman poet got sappy with it in "Eclogues"; "Love conquers all: let us too yield to love" Virgil |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $2000: The final stanza of this poem by Matthew Arnold begins, "Ah, love, let us be true to one another!" "Dover Beach" |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $4,500 (Daily Double): Percy Shelley wrote, "Nothing in the world is single; / All things by a law divine / In one spirit meet &" this, like at a mixer mingle |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $400: Elizabeth Bishop rhymed "disaster", "faster" & "vaster" with "the art of losing isn't hard to" this master |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $800: Wilfred Owen's poems about this conflict include "Spring Offensive" & "Anthem for Doomed Youth"--of which, sadly, he was one World War I |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Claude McKay wrote a sonnet about one of these awful events, with "the ghastly body swaying in the sun" a lynching |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Published after his 1850 death, "The Prelude" is an epic poetic memoir by this Romantic Wordsworth |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $2000: John Donne used the stuck-up sounding similes called metaphysical these, as when he compared lovers' souls to the 2 legs of a compass conceits |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Edina! Scotia's darling seat!" begins "Address to Edinburgh", a poem not in the Scottish dialect by this man (Rabbie) Burns |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $800: The first episode of "Antiques Odeshow" would be about the 1819 Keats poem with this title object a Grecian Urn |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1200: The entire poem by Strickland Gillilan titled "On the Antiquity of Microbes" consists of these 3 words Adam had 'em |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1600: The "sea-fever" in John Masefield's poem is curable: "All I ask is" this "and a star to steer her by" a tall ship |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Tennyson's poem about the land of these people, named for their diet, in which it seemed always afternoon, inspired a painting the Lotus Eaters |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $200: You want tales? Oh, we got some tales to tell! "The Clerk's", "The Manciple's", "The Reeve's"... all part of this The Canterbury Tales |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $400: Always seeming to find large amounts of trouble, this CIA agent is the protagonist in "Clear & Present Danger" Jack Ryan |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $600: Consecutive chapters in this book are "The Minister's Vigil" & "Another View of Hester" The Scarlet Letter |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $800: The many travails of the title hero of this Dumas novel include an involuntary swim after being tossed into the sea The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $1000: Sethe is haunted by the ghost of her nameless baby, described by the title adjective of this Toni Morrison novel Beloved |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $400: New Englander Robert's expenses & payments Frost's costs |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $800: "The Tyger" man's serpents Blake's snakes |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $1200: "Paradise Lost" man's chain hotels Milton's Hiltons |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $1600: "Cantos" man Ezra's drinks for everyone in the group! Pound's rounds |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $2000: Lord Alfred's blessings Tennyson's benisons |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: How meta--Dante is a character in this 3-part epic poem of his The Divine Comedy |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $800: "Song of Myself" was in the first edition of this collection of poems by Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $1200: The kids' book "The Sweet and Sour Animal Book" used 26 unpublished poems of this Harlem Renaissance figure Langston Hughes |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $1600: He wrote, "O my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June" Rabbie Burns |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $2,569 (Daily Double): It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..." Paradise Lost |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $200: Annotations on a First Folio of Shakespeare were found to be in the handwriting of this "Paradise Lost" poet (John) Milton |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $400: Poetic insult contests called flyting, basically 15th c. rap battles, are parodied in this Scottish poet's "To a Louse" (Robert) Burns |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $600: Gil Scott-Heron turned his poem titled this "Will Not Be Televised" into a 1970s musical anthem The Revolution |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $800: It took this poet 5 years to sell 500 copies of his first book, "Prufrock & Other Observations" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $1000: Edmund Spenser coined the word "blatant" to describe a beast in this allegorical poem The Faerie Queene |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $200: Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended" refers to this date when "two towers... went down, swallowed by a fire dragon" 9/11 |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $400: In an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night" a candle |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $600: Poems by him include "Harlem", "Crossing Jordan" & "The Weary Blues" Langston Hughes |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $800: One of Joseph Brodsky's best-known poems is "Elegy for" this "Death Be Not Proud" poet John Donne |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $1000: A poem by Stevie Smith says, "I was much further out than you thought and not waving but" doing this drowning |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Jabberwocky" appears in this author's "Through the Looking-Glass" (Lewis) Carroll |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $800: A leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, he wrote, "I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother" Langston Hughes |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $1200: 1956's "Let Us Compare Mythologies" was the first book of poems by this man more famous for songs like "Hallelujah" (Leonard) Cohen |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $1600: The line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" comes from his poem "Endymion" John Keats |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $2000: She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 & in 2020 this poet, whose last name means good fortune, won the Nobel Prize for Literature Louise Glück |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $400: This Welshman was famed for his lyrical writing & his bouts of drinking; one binge preceded his death in 1953 Thomas |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $800: This Chilean who wrote "20 Love Poems And A Song Of Despair" won the Nobel Prize in 1971 Pablo Neruda |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" & "Little Gidding" make up the group of Eliot's poems called "Four" these Quartets |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $1600: "It was many and many a year ago", begins a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about this maiden Annabel Lee |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $2000: "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul", ends this poem whose title is Latin for "unconquered" "Invictus" |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | POETS & POETRY $400: William Blake said this "little" animal was "wooly bright" lamb |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | POETS & POETRY $800: Haibun is a Japanese literary style that combines prose & this 3-line poetic form haiku |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | POETS & POETRY $1200: This company hired poet Marianne Moore to name a new car & she came up with some gems like Utopian Turtletop; they went with Edsel Ford |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | POETS & POETRY $1600: A pioneer imagist, he spent 1946-1958 in St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital, future home of John Hinckley Ezra Pound |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Fittingly, the epitaph on Oscar Wilde's grave contains a quote from his last work, this "Ballad" "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | POETS & POETRY $400: In the 19th century Mary Sawyer claimed she was the inspiration for this nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb" |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | POETS & POETRY $800: This president asked Robert Frost to read "The Gift Outright" at his inauguration, but with the last line changed President John F. Kennedy |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | POETS & POETRY $1200: This patriotic Oliver Wendell Holmes poem warns, "the harpies of the shore shall pluck the eagle of the sea!" "Old Ironsides" |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $400: Emma Lazarus wrote, "Give me your tired, your" these poor |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $800: In "Song of Myself" this poet sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" (Walt) Whitman |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $1200: In this poem Allen Ginsberg tells Carl Solomon, "I'm with you in Rockland" 19 times Howl |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $1600: This Dylan Thomas title is rhymed with "Though wise men at their end know dark is right" Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $2000: These 3 words precede "the centre cannot hold" in Yeats' "The Second Coming" Things fall apart |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $200: In an ode, John Keats called this bird, renowned for its song, light-winged Dryad of the trees a nightingale |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $400: As holder of this job in the 1970s, John Betjeman wrote verses honoring Elizabeth II's silver jubilee poet laureate |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $600: This Belle of Amherst wrote, "I'll tell you how the sun rose--a ribbon at a time" (Emily) Dickinson |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $800: This American's verses include "Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks" (Ogden) Nash |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $1000: John Dryden said this other 17th century man "affects the metaphysics"; in fact he's the leading metaphysical poet (John) Donne |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $400: The federal laureate position is technically called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" by this library the Library of Congress |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $800: This "Chicago" poet was Illinois' poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967 Carl Sandburg |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $1200: Colorado laureate Milford Shields must have been surprised when the governor also made this singer laureate in 1974 John Denver |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $2000: In 2019 Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Creek Nation of this state was named the first Native American poet laureate Oklahoma |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was made this city's first poet laureate San Francisco |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | POETS & POETRY $400: He began a poem, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" (Walt) Whitman |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | POETS & POETRY $800: A poem about these title insects "in the Garden" says, "Here come real stars to fill the upper skies" fireflies |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "The Burial of the Dead" is the first of 5 sections that make up this T.S. Eliot poem "The Waste Land" |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Completes the line by Stevie Smith:
"I was much further out that you thought and not waving but" this drowning |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Struck by the appearance of his cousin in a spangled mourning dress, he wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night" Lord Byron |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $400: From what he wrote about himself in "The Divine Comedy", we know that he was born in 1265 & that he was a Gemini Dante |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $800: This poet went to Columbia University & became friends with Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $1600: This "Trees" poet was born in New Brunswick & attended Rutgers Joyce Kilmer |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $2000: The line "My candle burns at both ends" comes from her poem "First Fig" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $10,117 (Daily Double): Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation of this 1,200-year-old epic poem was a surprise bestseller Beowulf |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | POETS & POETRY $400: In "Ode on a Grecian Urn", he wrote, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" Keats |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | POETS & POETRY $800: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" begins with these 5 words once upon a midnight dreary |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | POETS & POETRY $1200: He was nearly 87 when he recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at President Kennedy's inauguration Frost |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | POETS & POETRY $400: Ezra Pound said "Death of the Hired Man" was this poet at his best, daring to write "in the natural speech of New England" (Robert) Frost |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | POETS & POETRY $800: The epitaph on this poet's grave marker in Amherst, Massachusetts simply says, "Called Back" (Emily) Dickinson |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Tintinnabulation "so musically wells" in this piece by Edgar Allan Poe "The Bells" |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | POETS & POETRY $1600: He wrote, "Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes" (Robert) Burns |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | POETS & POETRY $2000: He thought "Four Quartets" was the best of his own poems T.S. Eliot |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $200: His advice:
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (Dylan) Thomas |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $400: Abraham Lincoln lies "fallen cold and dead" in his poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $600: Her poem "Lady Lazarus" says, "I'm only 30, and like the cat, I have 9 times to die" (Sylvia) Plath |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $800: A.E. Housman wrote "To" one of these "Dying Young" an athlete |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $1000: A wind chilled & killed this maiden "who lived with no other thought than to love & be loved by" Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | WOMEN POETS $400: She began a poem, "Because I could not stop for Death--he kindly stopped for me" Emily Dickinson |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | WOMEN POETS $800: Her 1967 New York Times obituary called her a "poet, critic, sardonic humorist and literary wit" Dorothy Parker |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | WOMEN POETS $1600: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "On the Death of" this poet mentions "that Harold's pilgrimage at last is o'er" Lord Byron |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | WOMEN POETS $2000: Known for her confessional poetry, she won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for "Stag's Leap", a book of poems about her divorce Sharon Olds |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | WOMEN POETS $2,600 (Daily Double): Often compared to another New England poet, Maxine Kumin was dubbed this, the female equivalent of his name Roberta Frost |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $200: This Scot's first poetry collection included "To a Mouse" & "To a Louse" (Rabbie) Burns |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" asks T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of" him J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $600: This poem about a prince & a monster is preserved in a single manuscript from about 1000 A.D. Beowulf |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $800: One of Australia's most beloved poems is Banjo Paterson's "The Man from" this river Snowy River |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $1000: This Matthew Arnold poem begins, "The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair" "Dover Beach" |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | OLD POETS' NICKNAMES $400: "The English Terence"--oh, & also "The Swan of Avon" Shakespeare |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | OLD POETS' NICKNAMES $800: "The Good Gray Poet" Walt Whitman |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | OLD POETS' NICKNAMES $1200: "The Sage of Concord" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | OLD POETS' NICKNAMES $1600: "The Poet of Nature" & "The Great Laker" (also "The Blockhead" & "The Clownish Sycophant") William Wordsworth |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | OLD POETS' NICKNAMES $2000: "The Lady of Christ's College" (maybe for his fair complexion) & "The British Homer" Milton |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $400: Poet laureate Nahum Tate wrote "A New Version of the Psalms of" this Biblical king King David |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $800: This father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis was poet laureate & a professor of poetry at Oxford Cecil Day-Lewis |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $1200: His "Birthday Letters" is a collection of poems addressing wife Sylvia Plath over a period of 25 years Ted Hughes |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $1600: His tenure as poet laureate was the longest at 42 years, 1850 to 1892 Lord Tennyson |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $400: Amy Lowell, reviewing "North of Boston", said, "Not only is " his "work New England in subject, it is so in technique" Robert Frost |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $1200: It's thought that Poe's child bride Virginia Clemm inspired this poem of his about a maiden in a kingdom by the sea "Annabel Lee" |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $1600: "The Song of Hiawatha" says, "From the water-fall he named her" this, "Laughing Water" Minnehaha |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Yeats:
"I will arise and go now, and go to" this place Innisfree |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $6,600 (Daily Double): In "Inferno" Dante called him "my master... from whom alone I took the style whose beauty has done me honor" Virgil |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | POETS & POETRY $400: A sailor foolishly kills a lucky seabird & all hell breaks loose in this Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | POETS & POETRY $800: Ernest Lawrence Thayer got $5 for this baseball poem published in 1888 "Casey at the Bat" |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | POETS & POETRY $1200: This Tennyson poem begins, "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | POETS & POETRY $1600: The medieval poem "Parzival" tells of a young knight's search for this sacred object, in the form of a gemstone the Holy Grail |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | POETS & POETRY $2000: This Frenchman's "Flowers of Evil" poetry collection was published to scandalous success in the 1850s Charles Baudelaire |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | POETS & POETRY $400: He penned the lines "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | POETS & POETRY $800: "That is no country for old men", begins this Irishman's poem "Sailing to Byzantium" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | POETS & POETRY $1200: The City College of New York hosts an annual festival celebrating the legacy of this poet laureate of Harlem (Langston) Hughes |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | POETS & POETRY $1600: In a poem by William Carlos Williams, it's easy to visualize this title object "glazed with rain water beside the white chickens" the red wheelbarrow |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | POETS & POETRY $2000: In the 1650s he wrote a very personal sonnet, "On His Blindness" (John) Milton |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $400: She began a poem, "I felt a funeral, in my brain, and mourners to and fro" Emily Dickinson |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $800: In 2003 & 2004 Louise Glück held this esteemed position poet laureate |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $1200: In September 1846 this English poet secretly married her poet boyfriend Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $2000: In addition to writing poems like "Goblin Market", Christina of this family often posed for Pre-Raphaelite painters Rossetti |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $3,000 (Daily Double): "In Exile" & "In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport" are 2 other poems by this woman who was put on a pedestal in N.Y. Emma Lazarus |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BRITISH POETS $400: Lines meant for her husband Robert say, "If thou must love me, let it be for nought except for love's sake only" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BRITISH POETS $800: At the time of his death in October 1400, he was living in a leased house in the garden of Westminster Abbey Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BRITISH POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sylvia Plath encouraged him to enter his first book, "The Hawk in the Rain", into a contest & he won first prize Ted Hughes |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BRITISH POETS $1200: As a teenager in the 1930s, he served as a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post Dylan Thomas |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BRITISH POETS $2000: It's not Wolverine but this Victorian poet who wrote "Dover Beach" Matthew Arnold |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | POETS & POETRY $200: This poem that sure is wocky ends, "All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe" "The Jabberwocky" |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | POETS & POETRY $600: Joyce Kilmer's most famous work ends, "Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make" this a tree |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | POETS & POETRY $800: In 1668 John Dryden became the first person to officially hold this royal writing position the poet laureate |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Spawning the Romantic Movement, 1798's "Lyrical Ballads" was penned by Wordsworth & this other poet (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | AMERICAN POETS $800: His stints as a teacher included stops at the Pinkerton Academy School & the State Normal School, both in New Hampshire Robert Frost |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | AMERICAN POETS $1600: Her poems include "1492", "Venus of the Louvre" & one about "Mother of Exiles" Emma Lazarus |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | AMERICAN POETS $2000: "Omaha" is a poem in the 1920 collection "Smoke and Steel" by this man better known for writing about Chicago (Carl) Sandburg |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | AMERICAN POETS $3,000 (Daily Double): This poet once claimed that English is the only language in which the pronoun "I" was written as a capital letter (e.e). cummings |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $400: This title character of a Coleridge poem must wander the world recounting the tale of his days at sea the Ancient Mariner |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $800: Keats was inspired to write an ode to this bird by the song of one that nested in Charles Brown's garden a nightingale |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $1200: After part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" was published, this lord "awoke one morning and found myself famous" Lord Byron |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $1600: His first major work was "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", a poem set on & north of England's northern border Sir Walter Scott |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $2000: The play in verse about this Greek god "Unbound" is often regarded as Shelley's greatest work Prometheus |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | POETS' MONIKERS $400: "Old Possum" T.S. Eliot |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | POETS' MONIKERS $800: "The Voice of New England" (born in San Francisco) Robert Frost |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | POETS' MONIKERS $1600: Illinois native who was "The Poet of the People" Carl Sandburg |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | POETS' MONIKERS $2000: "The Bard of Ayrshire" (Rabbie) Burns |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | POETS' MONIKERS $3,000 (Daily Double): "My Little Portuguese" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $200: In 1890 she was 4 years dead / & her 1st book of poems was read / It was a big hit & such / For a lady who did not get out much (Emily) Dickinson |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $400: His "Ode to Psyche" / Had some mad beats / But his love life, oh crikey! / Life was rough for... (John) Keats |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $600: I wrote "Kubla Khan" / To give you the word / & did more stuff / Than just about that darned bird! (Samuel) Coleridge |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $800: Nursing in the Civil War / Was unlike what I did before / I wrote of "my captain" Lincoln / O the tears back I was blinkin' (Walt) Whitman |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $1,600 (Daily Double): My big number is 600 / Somehow I rhymed it with "blunder'd" / As a rhyme, not very cool / But they teach my stuff in school! Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: "The people will waken & listen to hear / The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, / & the midnight message of" him Paul Revere |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $800: She titled an 1851 collection of her poems "Casa Guidi Windows" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $1200: He had the ideas used in "The Divine Comedy" by around 1293 & took from about 1308 to 1320 to write it Dante |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Whittier wrote, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 of regret that complete the line it might have been |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $2000: In an Ode to the West Wind, this Romantic poet called it "thou breath of Autumn's being" Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $400: "There was an old man in a tree, who was horribly bored by a bee" Edward Lear |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $1200: "A bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage" Maya Angelou |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $1,400 (Daily Double): "So glistered the dire snake, and into fraud / Led Eve our credulous mother, to the tree / Of prohibition, root of all our woe" (John) Milton |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $1600: "Lenore 'hath gone before', with hope, that flew beside, leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $2000: "If called by a panther / don't anther" Ogden Nash |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: The first stanza of this poem mentions "Some visitor... tapping at my chamber door--only this and nothing more" "The Raven" |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "The Weary Blues" was the first volume of poetry by this leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | POETS & POETRY $1600: He began a famous poem, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" Walt Whitman |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | POETS & POETRY $2000: This "Death Be Not Proud" poet was considered the greatest of England's metaphysical poets John Donne |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | POETS & POETRY $6,200 (Daily Double): Her poem No. 288 asks, "I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you--Nobody--too?" Emily Dickinson |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FRENCH POETS $400: Captain Rouget de Lisle wrote this one work that is remembered; it begins, "Allons, enfants de la patrie" "The Marseillaise" |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FRENCH POETS $1200: In the Bastille in 1717, this philosopher wrote his epic poem "La Henriade" Voltaire |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FRENCH POETS $1600: In "Ballad of the Ladies of Yore", Francois Villon asked, "Where are" these "of yesteryear?" snows |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FRENCH POETS $2000: Frederic Mistral wrote in this language of southern France & developed a dictionary of it Provençal |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | FRENCH POETS $5,000 (Daily Double): Also a novelist, he began an 1839 poem, "The church is vast; its towering pride, its steeples loom on high" Victor Hugo |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | POETS & POETRY $400: In this poem, Coleridge wrote, "and a good south wind sprung up behind; the albatross did follow" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | POETS & POETRY $800: Anne Sexton's elegy for this fellow doomed poet recalls the time "we downed three extra dry martinis in Boston" Sylvia Plath |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Beloved Aussie Banjo Paterson called one poem "A Singer of" this, another term for the Outback the Bush |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | POETS & POETRY $1600: In this Longfellow poem, the little village of Grand-Pre lay "in the Acadian land on the shores of the Basin of Minas" Evangeline |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | POETS & POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The longest poem in "Leaves of Grass", called this since 1881, consists of 52 sections "Song of Myself" |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: During the Hundred Years' War, this "Canterbury Tales" author was taken prisoner near Reims, France & held for ransom Chaucer |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $800: Antiwar poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action one week before the end of this war World War I |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1200: Given name Edward, he became poet laureate in 1984 Ted Hughes |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1600: The lover's plea "To His Coy Mistress" is this 17th century poet's best-remembered work Andrew Marvell |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $2000: Byron based "The Prisoner of" here on Francois Bonivard, a Genevan patriot who was jailed for his beliefs Chillon |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | BRITISH POETS $400: In a Jan. 10, 1845 letter, he confessed, "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett" Robert Browning |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | BRITISH POETS $800: Queen Victoria dubbed him baron of Aldworth & Freshwater (Lord) Tennyson |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | BRITISH POETS $1200: He dedicated "The Faerie Queene" to Queen Elizabeth; she rewarded him with a pension (Edmund) Spenser |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | BRITISH POETS $1600: Unlike some other Romantics, this "Tintern Abbey" poet did not die young, as the portrait shows William Wordsworth |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | BRITISH POETS $2000: This Brit's works included many political poems, including "Spain 1937" about the Spanish Civil War W.H. Auden |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | EUROPEAN POETS & POETRY $400: In 1901 French poet Sully Prudhomme became the first to win this literature prize the Nobel Prize |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | EUROPEAN POETS & POETRY $800: Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation of this 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon poem was a bestseller Beowulf |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | EUROPEAN POETS & POETRY $1200: In 1923 German poet Rainer Maria Rilke published a collection of sonnets to this hero whose music charmed Hades Orpheus |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | EUROPEAN POETS & POETRY $1600: In 1776 Karl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, appointed this poet to his cabinet as privy councilor Goethe |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | EUROPEAN POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1837 he was killed in a duel by Baron Georges d'Anthes, who was expelled from Russia for the incident Pushkin |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | POETS & POETRY $400: One of his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" begins, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere" (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | POETS & POETRY $800: In 1787 he signed his first published poem "Axiologus"; axio- is from the Greek for "worth" (William) Wordsworth |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Poet Laureate John Betjeman's hymn on this 1977 royal milestone made newspapers invite readers to submit better ones the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | POETS & POETRY $1600: John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, "Blessings on thee, little man, barefoot boy, with cheek of" this tan |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | POETS & POETRY $2000: She wrote, "My candle burns at both ends... but, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--it gives a lovely light" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $400: This beat poet's most famous poem begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: Poe wrote, "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of" this beautiful maiden Annabel Lee |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1200: "Candy is Dandy" is a collection of this humorist's best poetry Ogden Nash |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: A Maya Angelou poem says this creature "sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still" the caged bird |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Title vessel referred to in the line, "Oh, better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave" the U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | POETS & POETRY $400: Robert Browning wrote that one of these is "safe 'twixt you, me, and the gate-post!" a secret |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | POETS & POETRY $800: This divorced Algonquin "News Item" poet & wit continued writing under her married name Dorothy Parker |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Keats wrote, "blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, as though" this flower "should shut, and be a bud again" a rose |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Referring to Abe's supposed early love, Edgar Lee Masters called her "beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln" Ann Rutledge |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Maybe on Sunday, Emily Dickinson wrote, "Some keep" this "going to church--I keep it staying at home" the Sabbath |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $200: He heard "America Singing": WW Walt Whitman |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $400: A romantic poet who ode a lot: JK John Keats |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $600: A key figure of the Harlem renaissance: LH Langston Hughes |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $800: Wrote a sonnet "On His Blindness": JM John Milton |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $1000: Irish-born 1995 Nobel laureate: SH Seamus Heaney |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | POETS & POETRY $400: In the 1380s this English poetry pioneer dedicated his verse romance "Troilus and Criseyde" to fellow poet John Gower Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | POETS & POETRY $800: Southey wrote, "His coat was red, and his breeches were blue, and there was a hole where his tail came through" the devil |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Robert Louis Stevenson's green thumb produced the classic "A Child's" this "Of Verses" Garden |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | POETS & POETRY $2000: As a poet, this author of the prose work "Decameron" made the rhyme scheme ottava rima standard in Italian Boccaccio |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | POETS & POETRY $3,500 (Daily Double): Rhyme entered European poetry in the Middle Ages in part from this language in use in the region of Al Andalus in Spain Arabic |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | AMERICAN POETS $200: He published the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" at his own expense & even set some of the type for it (Walt) Whitman |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | AMERICAN POETS $400: Upon this woman's death in 1886, her sister Lavinia found nearly 1,000 poems hidden away in her bureau Emily Dickinson |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | AMERICAN POETS $600: Shortly after becoming engaged to Sarah Shelton, he fell ill in a Baltimore tavern & died 4 days later on October 7, 1849 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | AMERICAN POETS $800: This family of poets born in & around Boston includes Amy, James Russell & Robert the Lowells |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | AMERICAN POETS $1000: In "Concord Hymn", he wrote, "Here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | POEMS ON POETS $400: To hear about "My Highland Lassie" / My poor heart, it yearns / For he wrote 'em, I just quote 'em / He is... (Rabbie) Burns |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | POEMS ON POETS $800: "The Lamb" & "The Fly" are far from a mess / But this man's "The Tyger" / Gets all the good press (William) Blake |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | POEMS ON POETS $1200: Being called "a gargoyle of a man" / May have caused him to lose all hope / But his "Rape of the Lock" was good / He's... (Alexander) Pope |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | POEMS ON POETS $1600: "A hundred naked maidens" / Danced in his "Faerie Queene" / Give this Elizabethan credit / He sure could set a scene (Edmund) Spenser |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | POEMS ON POETS $2000: This romantic poet was really not clairvoyant / In 1822 / He put "Hellas" into view / But we wish he was more buoyant Shelley |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | POETS & POETRY $200: This "Walden" prose master wrote less well-remembered poems like "Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life" (Henry David) Thoreau |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | POETS & POETRY $400: Lord Byron wrote wistfully, "I am ashes where once I was" this fire |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | POETS & POETRY $600: First name of the 16th & 17th century poet whose "Hymn to God the Father" uses the word "done" 7 times in 18 lines John |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | POETS & POETRY $800: This Lake Poet married Mary Hutchinson, of whom he wrote, "She was a Phantom of delight" Wordsworth |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Editor Harriet Monroe said this man "has an eccentric system of typography which... intrudes itself irritatingly" E. E. Cummings |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $400: Born & died in Amherst:
ED Emily Dickinson |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $800: Maybe this Brit's life could be the subject of a PBS special:
PBS Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $1600: Her candle burned at both ends:
ESVM Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $2,000 (Daily Double): He was the "Ploughman Poet":
RB Robert Burns |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $2000: A fan of Xanadu:
STC Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $200: This Dylan song asked, "How many times must the cannonballs fly, before they're forever banned" "Blowin' In The Wind" |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $400: Sections of this 1855 poem include "The Peace Pipe", "The White-Man's Foot" & "Blessing the Corn Fields" The Song of Hiawatha |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $400: His song told of "People talking without speaking... people writing songs that voices never share" Paul Simon |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $600: This rock god wrote, "Am I sitting in a tin can? Far above the world, planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do" David Bowie |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $800: Read during Passover, it's also referred to as the "Canticle of Canticles" Song of Songs |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $800: English major Lou Reed wrote lyrics like "Whiplash girlchild in the dark" for this 1960s band the Velvet Underground |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | POETS OF SONG $1000: "Love is a banquet on which we feed" is from "Because The Night", co-written by this poetess of punk Patti Smith |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $1200: Before the 1881 edition, it was simply titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" "Song of Myself" |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $1,500 (Daily Double): William Blake published this collection in 1789; "Experience" would come a few years later Songs of Innocence |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | "SONG" OF POETS $2000: An insignificant battle between Charlemagne & the Basques at Roncesvalles is the basis for this French epic poem The Song of Roland |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRITISH POETS $400: In May 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the first woman in history appointed to this U.K. post Poet Laureate |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRITISH POETS $800: In his "Essay on Man", he wrote, "Know then thy self presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man" Alexander Pope |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRITISH POETS $1,200 (Daily Double): He wrote a 1671 poem about the biblical Samson, who like him suffered blindess John Milton |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRITISH POETS $1600: In early 1956 he met Sylvia Plath at a launch party for his literary magazine St. Botolph's Review Ted Hughes |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRITISH POETS $2000: The famous "Death be not proud" line is from this man's "Holy Sonnets" John Donne |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $400: In 1936 a Robert Frost collection sold 50,000 copies as a selection of this club the Book of the Month Club |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $800: As Shakespeare was the Sweet this bird of Avon, Anna "Elegy on Captain Cook" Seward was this bird of Lichfield Swan |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $1600: Once popular, Thomas Moore is remembered for burning the memoirs of this famed poet who died in Greece Lord Byron |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2002, this company came out with a product line featuring 2-line Maya Angelou poems Hallmark Cards |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $2000: This poet laureate's "Enoch Arden" sold 17,000 copies on its publication day in 1864 Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | POETS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH $200: Alexander Pushkin Russia |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | POETS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH $400: Arthur Rimbaud France |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | POETS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH $600: Gunnar Ekelof Sweden |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | POETS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH $800: Matsuo Basho Japan |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | POETS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH $1000: Odysseus Elytis Greece |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | POETS $400: In 1957 a judge ruled that this poet's "Howl" was not obscene & had redeeming social value Ginsberg |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | POETS $800: Many of the poems of his 1896 collection "A Shropshire Lad" were written prior to his ever having visited the county Housman |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | POETS $1200: He was professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical School when he wrote "The Chambered Nautilus" Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | POETS $1600: On April 6, 1327, Good Friday, this Italian lyric poet saw a girl named Laura at a church in Avignon Petrarch |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | POETS $2000: This Maine poetess wrote a group of love sonnets that were published in the collection "Fatal Interview" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | POETS & POETRY $400: William Blake wrote & illustrated "Songs of Innocence" & "Songs of" this Experience |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | POETS & POETRY $800: This Irish poet "will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and a small cabin build there" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): This British poet wrote, "When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide" John Milton |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | POETS & POETRY $1600: For his greatest poem, Edmund Spenser invented a land called this & its queene Faerie |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | POETS & POETRY $2000: This Matthew Arnold poem says, "on the French coast the light Gleams" & "The cliffs of England stand Glimmering" "Dover Beach" |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $400: How do we love her?:
EBB Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $800: Nokomis knows him:
HWL Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $1200: She wove "The Harp Weaver":
ESM (or ESVM) Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $1600: He spoon-fed us "Spoon River":
ELM Edgar Lee Masters |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $2000: Prominent Pre-Raphaelite:
DGR Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | EUROPEAN POETS $400: The Boathouse, this poet's writing shed in Laugharne, Wales, is now a museum Dylan Thomas |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | EUROPEAN POETS $800: In the early 14th century, he called his most famous work a "comedy" because of its sad beginning & happy ending Dante |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | EUROPEAN POETS $1200: His father came from Russian nobility; his mother was descended from an African prince Pushkin |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | EUROPEAN POETS $2000: In 1871, as a debauched, visionary 16-year-old, he wrote "Le Bateau ivre" or "The Drunken Boat" Arthur Rimbaud |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | EUROPEAN POETS $3,400 (Daily Double): The Irish Literary Theatre opened on May 8, 1899 with this co-founder's drama "The Countess Cathleen" William Butler Yeats |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS $200: Okay, we've been savin' / His poem, "The Raven" / But to go even deeper / Check out "The Sleeper" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS $400: Our New Year's are fine / 'Cause he wrote "Auld Lang Syne" / His pen was hot, man / He's the national poet of Scotland (Robert) Burns |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS $600: Blind by 1652 / 22 years of life remained / Still much for him to do / Like pen "Paradise Regained" Milton |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS $800: Remember your classes / His "Bells and Pomegranates" collection / Includes "Pippa Passes" Robert Browning |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS $1000: A 19th c. shut-in / We really don't mean to butt in / Her "A Route of Evanescence" / Would've thrilled Donald Pleasence Emily Dickinson |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $400: She poetiized, "Life, believe, is not a dream so dark as sages say"; Jane Eyre could have used those thoughts Charlotte Brontë |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $800: A specialist in action-packed young people's novels, in 1885 he put out the quiet "A Child's Garden of Verses" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $1600: In 1899 this "Steppenwolf" author published his first book, the poetry collection "Romantic Songs" (Herman) Hesse |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $2000: "So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, there never was a knight like" this Sir Walter Scott poetic hero Lochinvar |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | NOVELIST/POETS $4,000 (Daily Double): Esther attempts suicide in this, the only novel by its poet author The Bell Jar |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $400: Part I of Longfellow's "Song of" this man is entitled "The Peace Pipe" Hiawatha |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $1200: In 1814, seeing a lady in mourning in a spangled dress, this lord wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night" Byron |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Poet who wrote, "I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones" (sure sounds like a "Waste Land") (T.S.) Eliot |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $1,700 (Daily Double): Shelley wrote, "Chameleons feed on light and air; poets' food is" this emotion "and fame" love |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $2000: His 1847 poem "Ulalume" mentions "The ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir" (he really liked ghoulish stuff) (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | POETS & POETRY $200: He dedicated the 1922 poem "The Waste Land" to his friend Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | POETS & POETRY $400: His "Divine Comedy" is 100 cantos written in terza rima Dante |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | POETS & POETRY $600: A poem says, "Death, be not" this "though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" proud |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | POETS & POETRY $800: A poem of hers says, "I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | POETS & POETRY $1000: This poet took melancholy journeys like the ones in his long narrative poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Lord Byron |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | POETS $400: His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was first published on July 31, 1786 in Kilmarnock & sold 600 copies (Rabbie) Burns |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | POETS $800: In "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions", he wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself" John Donne |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | POETS $1200: In 1580 he became sec'y to the Lord Deputy of Ireland' maybe the boat that took him there was the Ferry Queen (Edmund) Spenser |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | POETS $1600: In 1798 he received an annuity from Josiah & Thomas Wedgwood, & his "Lyrical Ballads" was published (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | POETS $2000: A gravestone at Bunhill Fields says, "Near by lie the remains of the poet-painter" this man "1757-1827" (William) Blake |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | POETS & POETRY $400: Carl Sandburg's famous ode to this city calls it "Hog Butcher for the World" & "City of the Big Shoulders" Chicago |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | POETS & POETRY $800: The initials W.H. in this poet's name stood for Wystan Hugh W.H. Auden |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Robert Frost ended this poem about a barrier with the line "good fences make good neighbors" "Mending Wall" |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | POETS & POETRY $2000: In "A Few Figs From Thistles" she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | POETS & POETRY $4,000 (Daily Double): "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink" comes from this poem first published in 1798 "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $400: In the poem about him, "Out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats..." the Pied Piper of Hamelin |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $800: This epic poem by Virgil begins when a Trojan hero & his followers are shipwrecked near Carthage the Aeneid |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $1200: His 1946 poem "Fern Hill" describes the joys of visiting a family farm in Wales as a child Dylan Thomas |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $2000: One of 2 brothers of novelist & poet Laura Benet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Stephen Vincent Benet or William Rose Benet |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Holy Grail" & "Guinevere" are among the poems contained in this Tennyson work Idylls of the King |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $400: Type of creature of which Dickinson wrote, "A narrow fellow in the grass occasionally rides" a snake |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $800: In "The Village Blacksmith", Longfellow wrote of this "Sounding" object that the Blacksmith's hammer strikes an anvil |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "Eyes the shady night has shut cannot see the record cut" wrote Housman to one of these "Dying Young" an athlete |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Fittingly, the last section of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is entitled this type of inscription an epitaph |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $2000: His masterpiece poem "Don Juan" is divided into cantos Byron |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $200: Around 600 B.C. Alcaeus (Alky for short?) wrote verse in praise of this drink & how it brings out truth wine |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: "The sweep of easy wind and downy flake" appears in the poem "Stopping by Woods on" this type of "Evening" Snowy |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $800: Rimbaud had quite a bit of teen angst, as in his book title "Une saison en enfer", a season here Hell |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): British Romantics included Wordsworth in England &, north of the border, this "Lady of the Lake" author Sir Walter Scott |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Beloved poet seen here Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $400: A poem by this American begins, "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd" Walt Whitman |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $800: This Lake Poet, perhaps lonely as a cloud, wandered over to visit Sir Walter Scott in 1803 Wordsworth |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $1200: His "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" says, "In the room the women come and go/ talking of Michelangelo" T.S. Eliot |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $1600: Richard Cory, "a gentleman from sole to crown" in a poem by this 3-named man, "put a bullet through his head" Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $2000: "Funeral Blues" by this British poet begins, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" Auden |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $400: This subject of a Longfellow poem watched with eager search the belfry-tower of the Old North Church" Paul Revere |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: This beat poet's father, Louis, was a teacher & a poet in his own right Allen Ginsberg |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1200: A literary scholar who visited her in Amherst in 1870 described her as plain & having a soft, frightened, childlike voice Emily Dickinson |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: In 1922 this poet & Lincoln biographer wrote "Rootabaga Stories" to entertain his 3 daughters Carl Sandburg |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2000: Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica" contains the line "A poem should not mean/ but" this be |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $400: On New Year's Eve we should give thanks to this Scottish poet for his "Auld Lang Syne" Robert Burns |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $800: He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $1200: His "Ode on a Grecian Urn" includes the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" Keats |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Among his poetry collections is 1942's "Shakespeare in Harlem" Langston Hughes |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $4,800 (Daily Double): It's the title of the Longfellow poem that begins, "Under the spreading chestnut tree" "The Village Blacksmith" |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | POETS & POETRY $400: Fitzgerald's translation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" is quite enthused about "this forbidden" drink wine |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | POETS & POETRY $800: Written in September 1819, his "To Autumn" begins, "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness." Keats |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Shortly after writing "I Have a Rendezvous With" this, WWI poet Alan Seeger met it Death |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Though born on Long Island, in his poetry he was "Walt Whitman, a Kosmos, of" this island "the Son" Manhattan |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | POETS & POETRY $2000: "A terrible beauty is born", this Irishman wrote on "Easter, 1916" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $400: Although published as a separate volume in 1865, Whitman's "Drum-taps" was later included in this work Leaves of Grass |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: About the lovely Lenore, he wrote, "Wretches! Ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1200: This line follows "Poems are made by fools like me" "But only God can make a tree" |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: Born Dorothy Rothschild, this noted wit began her literary career with a poem published in Vanity Fair Dorothy Parker |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1945 this poet laureate of Illinois published her first volume of poetry, "A Street In Bronzeville" Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $200: He also wrote a poem about "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade" Tennyson |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $400: He finished writing "Evangeline" on his 40th birthday Longfellow |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $600: "Seldom does a first book contain so few unsuccessful things", said Amy Lowell of his "Chicago Poems" Sandburg |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $800: He wrote "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" to amuse a sick child Browning |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1000: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons," wrote T.S. Eliot in "The Love Song of" this man J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | POETS & POETRY $400: Though born in San Francisco, he is best known for his verse dealing with New England life, as in "North of Boston" Robert Frost |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | POETS & POETRY $800: "In Flanders Fields" these flowers "blow/between the crosses, row on row" poppies |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): This British poet wrote, "That's my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive" Robert Browning |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Gloriana is the title character in this epic poem by Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Romantic poet who wrote, "St. Agnes's Eve--ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold" (John) Keats |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | BRITISH POETS $400: Some of this Bombay-born man's better-known poems are "Danny Deever" & "Mandalay" Kipling |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | BRITISH POETS $800: This poet baron who fought for Greek independence also fought Lord Elgin's removal of the Greek marbles Lord Byron |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | BRITISH POETS $1200: As a group, Coleridge, Wordsworth & Southey are often known by this "aquatic" term the "Lake Poets" |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | BRITISH POETS $1600: The "Churchyard Poets" are so named because they follow in the shadow of this Brit's 1750 elegy Thomas Gray |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | BRITISH POETS $2000: This poet/playwright published his folio of works in 1616, a full 7 years before Shakespeare's Ben Jonson |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $200: Longfellow wrote, "Tell me not" that "life is but an empty" this dream |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $400: This troubled poet, an alumna of Smith College, used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas Sylvia Plath |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $600: Byron wrote, "Who killed" this poet? "'I,' says the quarterly, so savage and tartarly; 'Twas one of my feats'" Keats |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $800: He wondered, "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Shelley |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In "New Hampshire" he wrote, "Do you know, considering the market, there are more poems produced than any other thing?" Robert Frost |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: Encyclopedia Britannica calls his "The Hunting of the Snark" "nonsense literature of the highest order" Lewis Carroll |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $800: Sir Calidore pursues the Blatant Beast in Book VI of this Spenser work The Faerie Queene |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1200: After he gave up writing novels, he published his "Wessex Poems" in 1898 Thomas Hardy |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1600: She described her 1840s poem "A Vision of Poets" as "philosophical, allegorical, anything but popular" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $2000: He wrote his poem "To the Cuckoo" in an orchard in Grasmere Wordsworth |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: You might howl at this Beat poet's "TV Baby Poems" Allen Ginsberg |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | POETS & POETRY $800: While he lived near Pisa, this English poet wrote "Ode to the West Wind" & "To a Skylark" Shelley |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Poem containing the line "Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" "The Raven" |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | POETS & POETRY $1600: This Robert Frost poem begins "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" "The Road Not Taken" |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | POETS & POETRY $2000: It's the personal 3-word title of the longest poem in Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" "Song of Myself" |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | POETS & POETRY $400: In a 1789 poem, he wrote "Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, the hills of the highlands for ever I love" (Rabbie) Burns |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | POETS & POETRY $800: "Martin" is one of the other poems in his 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems" Joyce Kilmer |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", begins this Allen Ginsberg poem "Howl" |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | POETS & POETRY $1600: It's the sonnet written in 1883 that ends, "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" "The New Colossus" |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Robert Frost ended his "Mending Wall" with this famous phrase about barriers fences make good neighbors |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $400: Her early 1960s poem "Lady Lazarus" tells of her attempted suicide Sylvia Plath |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $800: Only 7 of her poems were published during her lifetime--5 in the Springfield Republican Emily Dickinson |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $1200: Having been replaced by her as leader of the Imagists, Ezra Pound began calling them "Amygists" Amy Lowell |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $2000: In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize for a group of poems that included "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $5,201 (Daily Double): In 1850 the Athenaeum suggested that she succeed Wordsworth as England's poet laureate Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: William Cowper called it "The very spice of life" variety |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $800: In an elegy, Shelley said this poet's soul "Like a star, beacons from the abode where the eternal are" Keats |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): About one of his most famous poems, he said, "I began it upon leaving Tintern, after crossing the Wye" William Wordsworth |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1600: 5-word Kipling phrase that precedes "is more deadly than the male" "The female of the species" |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1677 this poet wrote "All for Love", a play adapted from Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" John Dryden |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $400: 2005 marks 150 years since this poet first mowed his "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $800: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit a peach |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $1600: In a Keats ode, these 5 words immediately precede "that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know" beauty is truth; truth beauty |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1993 she became the second poet to recite an original work at a presidential inauguration Maya Angelou |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $2000: This poem by Matthew Arnold mentions the French coast & the cliffs of England Dover Beach |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | POETS & POETRY $400: John Berryman's poem "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet" is a tribute to her Anne Bradstreet |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | POETS & POETRY $800: Shakespeare said of this handsome mythological man, "hunting he lov'd, but love he laugh'd to scorn" Adonis |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga combined the names of 2 of her favorite poets to get this pen name Gabriela Mistral |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | POETS & POETRY $1600: He was a bank clerk in the Yukon before he published "Songs of a Sourdough" in 1907 Robert Service |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | POETS & POETRY $2000: William Cullen Bryant was just 17 when he wrote this poem whose name comes from the Greek for "view of death" "Thanatopsis" |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | BOBBING FOR POETS $400: In 1785 he wrote "Gie me ae spark o'nature's fire, that's a' the learning I desire" Bobby Burns |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | BOBBING FOR POETS $800: His first published poem was 1833's "Pauline" Browning |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | BOBBING FOR POETS $1200: He wrote, "Better to go down dignified/ With boughten friendship at your side/ Than none at all. Provide, Provide!" Robert Frost |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | BOBBING FOR POETS $1600: The next 3 words of lyric poet Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to make much of time", "Gather ye rosebuds..." while ye may |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | BOBBING FOR POETS $2000: The USA's first Poet Laureate, he taught at Louisiana State from 1934 to 1942 & edited the Southern Review (Robert Penn) Warren |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $400: The 1st commission of Andrew Motion, appointed in 1999, was to compose a little ditty for this prince's wedding Edward |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $800: Robert Bridges had it "Falling on the city brown... hushing, the latest traffic of the drowsy town" snow |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $1200: In 1843, 36 years after he "wandered lonely as a cloud", he sauntered into the post Wordsworth |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $2000: John Masefield got the job with lines like "All I ask is" one of these "and a star to steer her by" a tall ship |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $4,000 (Daily Double): Edward is the actual first name of this poet in the post from 1984 to 1998 Ted Hughes |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | POETS & POETRY $400: A collection by Joyce Carol Oates is called "Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are" this;
ka-ching! Money |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | POETS & POETRY $800: Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" ends, "If winter comes, can spring be" this far behind |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | POETS & POETRY $1200: For his dying father, this Welshman wrote the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Dylan Thomas |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Poet Laureate of the U.S. from 1993 to 1995, she won a 1987 Pulitzer for "Thomas and Beulah" Rita Dove |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | POETS & POETRY $2,600 (Daily Double): In Coleridge's poem, it's where Kubla Khan had his "stately pleasure dome" Xanadu |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: After World War II, this Welsh poet served as a commentator on poetry for the BBC Dylan Thomas |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $800: In this 14th c. work, Harry Bailly, Tabard Inn host, agrees to give a free dinner to the pilgrim who tells the best story the Canterbury Tales |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1200: His name is a religious post & in "Essay on Man" he seeks to "vindicate the ways of God to Man" (Alexander) Pope |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1600: He wrote the lines "The lark's on the wing, the snail's on the thorn, God's in his heaven, all's right with the world" Robert Browning |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $2000: This poet laureate's "In Memoriam" was an elegy to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POETS $400: This "Howl" poet's father was also a poet & the 2 would perform public readings together Allen Ginsberg |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POETS $800: In 1953 his Norton Lectures at Harvard were published as "i: six nonlectures" (E.E.) Cummings |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): After his death in 1821, a fellow poet wrote that he was fragile & was "killed off by one critique" (John) Keats |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POETS $1200: She considered publishing "Sonnets from the Portuguese" as "Sonnets Translated from the Bosnian" Elizabeth (Barrett) Browning |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POETS $2000: In 1857 this "Old Ironsides" poet & others founded the Atlantic Monthly Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN POETS $400: In May 1827 he enlisted in the U.S. Army as "Edgar A. Perry" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN POETS $800: In 1900 his grandfather bought him a chicken farm near Derry, New Hampshire Robert Frost |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN POETS $1600: He wrote, "What would you do if you were up a dark alley with Caesar Borgia and he was coming torgia" Ogden Nash |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN POETS $2,000 (Daily Double): He was a descendant of John & Priscilla Alden, whose love story he told in an 1858 narrative poem (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN POETS $2000: First name of the Pulitzer-winning poet whose son Charles was involved in the 1950s quiz show scandals Mark (Van Doren) |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | POETS & POETRY $400: He once described his "Leaves of Grass" as a "language experiment" Walt Whitman |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | POETS & POETRY $800: While living in Italy, she wrote & sent to the U.S. "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim Point", published in 1848 Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | POETS & POETRY $1200: How sad for this poet that she "felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro" Emily Dickinson |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | POETS & POETRY $1600: John Keats' "Ode on" this includes the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" a Grecian urn |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | POETS & POETRY $2000: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was the first published poem by this man called the "Poet Laureate of Harlem" Langston Hughes |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1385 this "Canterbury Tales" poet was appointed Justice of the Peace for County Kent Chaucer |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | POETS & POETRY $800: Collier's calls this American lyric poet a "typographical innovator" e.e. cummings |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Petrarch's "Canzoniere" included 366 sonnets, one a day, to this lady with whom he was infatuated Laura |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): In "The Courtship of Miles Standish", she says, "If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning" Priscilla |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1642 this English Cavalier poet was jailed for presenting a Royalist petition to Parliament Richard Lovelace |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | POETS & POULTRY $400: Poet laureate Robert Southey wrote that "Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to" do this roost |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | POETS & POULTRY $800: In "Eugene Onegin", Pushkin wrote, "Now southward swept the caravan of the wild" these, "a noisy clan" geese |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | POETS & POULTRY $1200: Pistol calls his wife "my duck" as he kisses her & goes off to war in France in this Shakespeare history play Henry V |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | POETS & POULTRY $1600: "We will eat our mullets, soused in wines" & "sup pheasants' eggs", this Elizabethan dramatist wrote in "The Alchemist" Ben Jonson |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | POETS & POULTRY $2000: Last name of William Carlos, who wrote, "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow beside the white chickens" Williams |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $400: Almost all of the poetry of this "New England Mystic" was first published after her death in 1886 Emily Dickinson |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $800: Poem that contains the line "All in the valley of death rode the six hundred" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "Mending Wall" is one of the best-known poems in his collection "North of Boston" Robert Frost |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $1600: A famous line in a James Weldon Johnson poem says, "Young man -- young man -- your arm's too short to" do this box with God |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $2000: T.S. Eliot dedicated "The Waste Land" to this poet & critic who helped revise it Ezra Pound |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | POETS & POETRY $200: Longfellow urged, "Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay, for oh, it is not always" this month May |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Notwithstanding many hints to the contrary", he said, "I still maintain" Childe Harold "to be a fictitious personage" Lord Byron |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | POETS & POETRY $800: This "I, Claudius" novelist was also a poet who taught poetry at Oxford in the 1960s Robert Graves |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | POETS & POETRY $1000: The Rossettis published poems in The Germ, a short-lived magazine from this artsy group Pre-Raphaelites |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | POETS & POETRY $1,800 (Daily Double): He wrote, "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky" in the early 1800s at Grasmere William Wordsworth |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | POETS BEFORE & AFTER $400: Brrrrrrr! It's the condition that may afflict you if you read "The Road Not Taken" outside without your mittens on Robert Frostbite |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | POETS BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Leaves of Grass" poet who's an enticing box of assorted chocolates Walt Whitman Sampler |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | POETS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Jimmy Dean's hit song about the rough, tough poet who penned "Endymion" Big Bad John Keats |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | POETS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Transcendentalist poet-turned-British rock trio who sang "From the Beginning" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | POETS BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): You might hear him singing "The Times They Are A-Changin'" somewhere "Under Milk Wood" Bob Dylan Thomas |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | POETS & POETRY $400: In a poem in this 1855 collection, the author introduced himself as "Walt Whitman, an American" Leaves of Grass |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread--and thou" is a line from this Omar Khayyam work The Rubaiyat |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | POETS & POETRY $1600: This Edgar Lee Masters "Anthology" contains over 200 epitaphs of midwestern townspeople The Spoon River Anthology |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | POETS & POETRY $2000: This "Death Be Not Proud" poet was an Anglican priest who became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1621 John Donne |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | POETS & POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): She wrote in a sonnet, "First time he kissed me, he but only kiss'd the fingers of this hand wherewith I write" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $200: This hero went "forth upon the Gitche Gumee... with his fishing-line of cedar" to catch a sturgeon Hiawatha |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $600: For writing the pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism", this "Ode to the West Wind" poet was expelled from Oxford Shelley |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $800: The first line of this poem is "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus's son Achilles" the Iliad |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): He wrote his 1914 poem "Chicago" while working as a newspaper writer in that city Carl Sandburg |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In 1899 this Irish poet & dramatist co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre, which later became the Abbey Theatre William Butler Yeats |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: In 1823 Lord Byron penned, "And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but" this "in masquerade" the truth |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $800: In a Tennyson poem, "Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode" this number 600 |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1200: This "Faerie Queene" poet is also famous for his 1595 work "Amoretti", a series of 89 love sonnets Edmund Spenser |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1600: In his "Ode on" this Keats wrote, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" a Grecian Urn |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $2000: He knew a lot about "Stone Walls": he was imprisoned in 1642 & 1648 & wrote famous poems both times Richard Lovelace |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: His "Idylls of the King" ended with an allegorical epilogue to Queen Victoria to "accept this old imperfect tale" Tennyson |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1200: This Byron masterpiece about a legendary lover was written in the Italian verse form called Ottava Rima Don Juan |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1600: In "An Essay on Man", he wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" Pope |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $2000: This "Age of Anxiety" poet was a stretcher-bearer in the Spanish Civil War Auden |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The closing lines of his "Tintern Abbey" poem were written to his sister Dorothy, an accomplished writer herself Wordsworth |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 905 the Kokinshu, an anthology of poetry in the waka form, was compiled in this country Japan |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | POETS & POETRY $800: This "Road Not Taken" poet was named by his parents for Robert E. Lee Robert Frost |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | POETS & POETRY $1200: His "To a Mouse" was inspired when he turned up a mouse's nest with his plow in November 1785 (Robby) Burns |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | POETS & POETRY $1600: About this vessel, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "Nail to the mast her holy flag, set every threadbare sail" Old Ironsides |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | POETS & POETRY $2000: This Harlem Renaissance poet was discovered by Vachel Lindsay, who helped publish his "Weary Blues" Langston Hughes |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | AMERICAN POETS $400: The fame of teacher-poet Louis Ginsberg was overshadowed by this son of his Allen |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | AMERICAN POETS $800: Because he wrote the scandalous "Leaves of Grass", he was fired from his Interior Department clerkship in 1865 (Walt) Whitman |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | AMERICAN POETS $1200: The park behind the New York Public Library is named for this poet whose given names were William Cullen Bryant |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | AMERICAN POETS $1600: Bostonian Robert Lowell wrote "For The Union Dead" & Kentuckian Allen Tate wrote "Ode to" these people The Confederate Dead |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | AMERICAN POETS $2,000 (Daily Double): She was given her middle name after a New York City hospital that saved her uncle's life Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | BRITISH POETS $400: From 1847 to 1861, he & his wife Elizabeth lived at Casa Guidi in Florence Browning |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | BRITISH POETS $800: His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was first published on July 31, 1786 in Kilmarnock, selling 1600 copies Rabbie Burns |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | BRITISH POETS $1200: In 1798 he received an annuity from Josiah & Thomas Wedgwood & his "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was published Coleridge |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | BRITISH POETS $1600: In 1953 he read his "Under Milk Wood" publicly for the first time at Cambridge, Mass. although it was still unfinished Dylan Thomas |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | BRITISH POETS $2000: In "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions", he wrote, "No man is an island entire of itself" John Donne |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $200: In 2000 the Librarian of Congress announced that 95-year-old Stanley Kunitz would take up this post poet laureate |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $400: Trees figured in many of his poems, like "Birches", "Dust of Snow" & "Good-Bye and Keep Cold" Robert Frost |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $600: You can hear Johnny Gilbert lower case his voice to read this man's work:
"The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses; nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands..." E.E. Cummings |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $800: "For the Union Dead" is a 1964 book by this poet whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower Robert Lowell |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $1000: In 1995 this Seamus from Ireland detected the Nobel Prize for Literature coming his way Seamus Heaney |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | POETS & POETRY $200: While attending Sarah Lawrence College, this "Color Purple" author wrote her first book of poetry (Alice) Walker |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | POETS & POETRY $400: His 1956 poem "Howl" is considered one of the first important poems of the Beat Movement (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | POETS & POETRY $600: This Greek lyric poetess created a verse form featuring 3 lines of 11 syllables & a fourth line of 5 syllables Sappho |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | POETS & POETRY $800: It completes the Robert Browning line "God's in His heaven..." ...all's right with the world |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In 1757 this "Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard" poet refused an appointment as Poet Laureate Gray |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $200: Robert Burns wrote, "O, my love is like a red, red" one of these "that's newly sprung in June" rose |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $400: Included in his "Chicago Poems" collection is that one about fog coming "on little cat feet" (Carl) Sandburg |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $600: A trip to Ravenna in 1819 inspired Byron to write "The Prophecy" of this Italian poet Dante |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $800: In T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The women come and go talking of" him Michelangelo |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $1000: This Robert Frost poem ends with the line "Good fences make good neighbors" "Mending Wall" |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | POETS & POETRY $200: This poem begins, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary..." "The Raven" |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | POETS & POETRY $400: He coined the words "brillig", "slithy" & "mimsy" in "Jabberwocky" Lewis Carroll |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | POETS & POETRY $600: The poetry of Attila Jozsef, immortalizing his washerwoman mother, is a monument of this language Hungarian |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | POETS & POETRY $800: He wrote "Song of the Broad-Axe" & "Song of Myself" Walt Whitman |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | POETS & POETRY $1000: "The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality" is a famous line from a poem by this woman Emily Dickinson |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | POETS WHO RHYME $200: 19th century lord whose last name rhymes with deer meat Tennyson (Venison) |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | POETS WHO RHYME $400: Irish poet who rhymes with wooden boxes for packing Yeats (Crates) |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | POETS WHO RHYME $600: Ode-acious poet who rhymes with red root vegetables Keats (Beets) |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | POETS WHO RHYME $800: "Gunga Din" author who rhymes with habitual drinking Kipling (Tippling) |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | POETS WHO RHYME $1000: New Englander who rhymes with a price or sacrifice Frost (Cost) |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $100: Most of this "Color Purple" author's first volume of poetry, "Once", was written in one week in 1964 Alice Walker |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $200: "Howl", his first book of poetry, was published by City Lights, a bookstore owned by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $300: In "Endymion" he wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" John Keats |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1945 this South American country's Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature Chile |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $500: A poem by Poe purports to be the confession of this lame Asiatic conqueror, also a Christopher Marlowe subject Tamerlane |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | POETS & POETRY $200: Taking its title from "Song of Myself", the book "Containing Mutitudes" traces his influence on recent poetry Walt Whitman |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | POETS & POETRY $400: His nonsense poem "The New Vestments" says, "his buttons were jujubes, and chocolate drops" Edward Lear |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | POETS & POETRY $800: In 1945 this poet was elected a senator in Chile Pablo Neruda |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters" is based on an episode from this work of classical literature The Odyssey |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | POETS & POETRY $1000: "One calm summer night" this title character "went home and put a bullet through his head" Richard Cory |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | DEAD POETS SOCIETY $200: In an Ernest Thayer poem, Cooney, Burrows, Flynn & Blake preceded this man to the plate Casey |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | DEAD POETS SOCIETY $400: In "Sea Fever" all John Masefield asked for "is a tall ship and a star to" do this steer her by |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | DEAD POETS SOCIETY $800: This Harlem Renaissance poet wondered, "What happens to a dream deferred?" Langston Hughes |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | DEAD POETS SOCIETY $1,000 (Daily Double): Whitman's "When Lilies Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" was an elegy for this man Abraham Lincoln |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | DEAD POETS SOCIETY $1000: By the title, it's what Keats' "La Belle Dame" was "Sans" Merci |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | FEMALE POETS $200: Only 7 of her 1,775 poems were published during her lifetime Emily Dickinson |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | FEMALE POETS $400: She's won 2 Grammys for albums of her poetry, "On the Pulse of Morning" & "Phenomenal Woman" Maya Angelou |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | FEMALE POETS $600: Her husband Ted Hughes edited her posthumously published "Collected Poems" Sylvia Plath |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | FEMALE POETS $800: This British poet spent the last 15 years of her life, 1847-1861, at Casa Guidi, her villa in Florence, Italy Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | FEMALE POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): This leader of the Imagist school was the sister of the famous astronomer who predicted the existence of Pluto Amy Lowell |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | POETS & POETRY $200: "The Coming of Arthur" & "Gareth and Lynette" are parts of his "Idylls of the King" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | POETS & POETRY $400: This romantic poet's name gave us an adjective for the type of hero he created -- a brooding young man Lord Byron |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | POETS & POETRY $600: "Resolution and Independence" is found in this lake poet's 1807 "Poems in Two Volumes" William Wordsworth |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): The leaves of grass at this poet's grave surround a tomb of his own design in Harleigh Cemetery Walt Whitman |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Last name of poet Wystan Hugh, who wrote, "A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere" W.H. Auden |
| #3545, aired 2000-01-21 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $200: Robert Southey's prose collection "The Doctor" featured this ursine nursery story "The Story of the Three Bears" |
| #3545, aired 2000-01-21 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $400: John Dryden also wrote plays; his "All for Love" was based on this Roman tale by Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra |
| #3545, aired 2000-01-21 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $600: He wrote that "Nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower" William Wordsworth |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $100: Published in 1866, "Battle-Pieces" was Herman Melville's unappreciated book of poetry about this event Civil War |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $200: Poet who wrote the immortal, "when the world is mud-luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee" E.E. Cummings |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $300: With 6 children, this poet was well-equipped to write "The Children's Hour" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $400: William O'Connor's pamphlet in defense of this poet was titled "The Good Gray Poet", hence his nickname Walt Whitman |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $500: He wrote "To His Coy Mistress", "Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime" Andrew Marvell |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | SCRAMBLED ROMANTIC POETS $100: Steak Keats |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | SCRAMBLED ROMANTIC POETS $200: Hell, yes Shelley |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | SCRAMBLED ROMANTIC POETS $400: Ogle cider Coleridge |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | SCRAMBLED ROMANTIC POETS $500 (Daily Double): Throw sword! Wordsworth |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | SCRAMBLED ROMANTIC POETS $500: Hot suey Southey |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | POETS & POETRY $100: Much of this Longfellow poem takes place "by the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water" "Hiawatha" |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | POETS & POETRY $200: In 1630 John Milton wrote a sonnet honoring this other famous sonneteer William Shakespeare |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | POETS & POETRY $300: Voltaire's mock heroic "La Pucelle" features this medieval warrior maid Joan of Arc |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | POETS & POETRY $400: Odysseus Elytis, a poet from this country, won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature Greece |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | POETS & POETRY $500: "Crossing the Water" & "Winter Trees" are 2 posthumous collections by this "Bell Jar" author Sylvia Plath |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | 20th CENTURY POETS $200: This author of the poem "Daddy" committed suicide in 1963, before she could work out her parental issues (Sylvia) Plath |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | 20th CENTURY POETS $400: He read almost as well as he wrote
"Do not go gentle into that good night / Old age should burn and rave..." Dylan Thomas |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | 20th CENTURY POETS $800: In 1998 this young pop star published her poems in the book "A Night Without Armor" Jewel |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | 20th CENTURY POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1917, at age 52, this Irishman got married & published his book "The Wild Swans at Coole" (William Butler) Yeats |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | 20th CENTURY POETS $1000: Author heard here reading an entire poem
"So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens" William Carlos Williams |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | POETS' RHYME TIME $200: Jonson's
quills Ben's pens |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | POETS' RHYME TIME $400: Geoffrey's
cup holders Chaucer's saucers |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | POETS' RHYME TIME $600: Robert's
expenses Frost's costs |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | POETS' RHYME TIME $800: Hughes'
sneakers Ted's Keds |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | POETS' RHYME TIME $1000: Edmund's
incense burners Spencer's censers |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | POETS & POETRY $200: Before writing poems like "Hiawatha" he taught modern languages at Bowdoin College Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | POETS & POETRY $400: A tasty little verse by Ogden Nash says, "I don't mind eels except as" these Meals |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | POETS & POETRY $600: In the second edition of "Leaves Of Grass", this piece was titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, An American" "Song Of Myself" |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | POETS & POETRY $800: John Keats' poem "Endymion" begins with this line about beauty "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In 1958 T.S. Eliot helped gain the release of this poet from a Washington mental institution Ezra Pound |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | POETS' RHYME TIME $200: Edgar Allan's enemies Poe's foes |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | POETS' RHYME TIME $400: Ogden's shindigs Nash's bashes |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | POETS' RHYME TIME $600: Elizabeth Barrett's coronations Browning's crownings |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | POETS' RHYME TIME $800: Rupert's volumes Brooke's books |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | POETS' RHYME TIME $1000: A.A.'s ovens Milne's kilns |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $200: Sylvia's tub times Plath's baths |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $400: Ezra's Afghans Pound's hounds |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $600: Alexander's expectations Pope's hopes |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $800: William's anacondas Blake's snakes |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $1000: Sir Philip's renal organs Sidney's kidneys |
| #3087, aired 1998-01-20 | POETS & POETRY $200: Type of event celebrated by an "Epithalamion", like the one Spenser wrote about his own to Elizabeth Boyle wedding |
| #3087, aired 1998-01-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: Taslima Nasrin left Bangladesh after incurring a 1994 Islamic death sentence, like this British author Salman Rushdie |
| #3087, aired 1998-01-20 | POETS & POETRY $600: In 1811 this poet was expelled from Oxford for writing the pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism" Percy Shelley |
| #3087, aired 1998-01-20 | POETS & POETRY $800: HE WROTE, "since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things" E.E. Cummings |
| #3087, aired 1998-01-20 | POETS & POETRY $1000: He was actually in the slammer -- London's Gatehouse, to be precise -- when he wrote "To Althea, from Prison" Richard Lovelace |
| #3079, aired 1998-01-08 | POETS $200: He began a correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 & a year later they were married Robert Browning |
| #3079, aired 1998-01-08 | POETS $400: He must have had a "Howl"ing good time performing on one of the Clash's albums Allen Ginsberg |
| #3079, aired 1998-01-08 | POETS $600: He completed a sonnet "On His Blindness" circa 1655 & one "On His Deceased Wife" in 1658 John Milton |
| #3079, aired 1998-01-08 | POETS $800: A bit of an eccentric, this poet & sister of astronomer Percival was often seen smoking cigars Amy Lowell |
| #3079, aired 1998-01-08 | POETS $1000: "Double Persephone" was the first book of poetry by this Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" Margaret Atwood |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | POETS & POETRY $200: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of" this "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | POETS & POETRY $400: Robert Frost rhymed, "Nature's first green is" this color, "her hardest hue to hold" Gold |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | POETS & POETRY $600: Robert Burns told this "sweet" river to "flow gently... among thy green braes" Afton |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | POETS & POETRY $800: This "Don Juan" poet adopted a third given name, Noel, to receive an inheritance from his mother-in-law Lord Byron |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | POETS & POETRY $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1712 poem was based on the true story of a lord cutting a curl from Arabella Fermor's hair "The Rape of the Lock" (by Alexander Pope) |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | POETS & POETRY $200: William Blake tells of this animal "burning bright in the forests of the night" a tiger |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | POETS & POETRY $400: Odd thing, but she "heard a fly buzz when" she "died" & "felt a funeral in" her "brain" Emily Dickinson |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | POETS & POETRY $600: His classic 1946 poem "Fern Hill" was inspired by a relative's farm in Wales Dylan Thomas |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | POETS & POETRY $800: Katherine Anne Porter could tell you the title of the 1494 German poem "Das Narrenschiff" means this "Ship of Fools" |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Emma Lazarus is best known for this sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's base "The New Colossus" |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $200: The last work of 15th century poet Christine de Pisan celebrates the military victories of this woman Joan of Arc |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $400: In a preface to "Paradise Lost" he called rhyme "The invention of a barbarous age, to set off...lame meter" John Milton |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $600: In a 1648 poem Robert Herrick urged reluctant maidens, "Gather ye" these "while ye may" Rosebuds |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $800: This midwestern American poet gained new fame in 1990 with "Iron John: A Book About Men" Robert Bly |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | POETS & POETRY $1000: This 19th century author of "Les Fleurs du Mal" translated Poe's tales into French Charles Baudelaire |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $200: This world leader & author of the "Liitle Red Book" was also a poet Mao Tse-tung |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $400: In Robert Browning's "Pippa Passes", "God's in" this place -- "all's right with the world" His heaven |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $600: In 1996 this "Howl" poet released a CD called "The Ballad of the Skeletons" Allen Ginsberg |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $800: Plato referred to this Greek woman poet of the 7th century B.C. as the "Tenth Muse" Sappho |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Shelley's poem about this character "unbound" contains characters like Ione & Hercules Prometheus |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | POETS & POETRY $100: It begins, "It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day" "Casey at the Bat" |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | POETS & POETRY $200: His poem, "Highland Mary", was inspired by Mary Campbell, to whom he was engaged Burns |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | POETS & POETRY $300: He included an unflattering description of himself in one of "The Canterbury Tales" Chaucer |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1823 Shelley was buried in the same Rome cemetery where this poet had been buried 2 years earlier Keats |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | POETS & POETRY $500: This British poet of "Gunga Din" penned the phrase "East is East, and West is West" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | POETS & POETRY $200: He wrote an ode called "On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity" decades before "Paradise Lost" John Milton |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart!" begins one of her "Sonnets From The Portuguese" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | POETS & POETRY $600: British author who wrote, "'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things...'" Lewis Carroll |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | POETS & POETRY $800: You might read this New Englander's blank verse play "A Masque of Reason" "On A Snowy Evening" Robert Frost |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): After she died in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered hundreds of her poems in little handsewn booklets Emily Dickinson |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | POETS $200: On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress Carl Sandburg |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | POETS $400: Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his "Idylls of the King" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | POETS $600: For much of the winter of 1794-95, he served as acting supervisor for Dumfries, Scotland Robert Burns |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | POETS $800: Her "I Heard a Fly Buzz" may have been based on a chapter in "The House of the Seven Gables" Emily Dickinson |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | POETS $1000: He once wrote, "I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer" Robert Frost |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $200: Longfellow's poem about this patriot begins, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear..." Paul Revere |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $400: According to tradition, Clement Clark Moore wrote this holiday classic for his own children in 1822 "The Night Before Christmas" |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $600: William Blake asked of this wild animal, "Did he who made the lamb make thee?" The Tyger |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $800: He concluded "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" with "The Epitaph"; how appropriate (Thomas) Gray |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $1000: He dedicated "The Rape of the Lock" to Mrs. Arabella Fremor (Alexander) Pope |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | POETS & POETRY $200: He followed up "Paradise Lost" with "Paradise Regained" Milton |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | POETS & POETRY $400: The literati in Edinburgh called him the "Ploughman Poet" Robert Burns |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | POETS & POETRY $600: About these Poe wrote, "Through the balmy air of night how they ring out their delight" the bells |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | POETS & POETRY $800: It's the use of a word that imitates what is denotes, such as buzz or cuckoo onomatopoeia |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In his prose "Devotions", this poet wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself" John Donne |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | POETS & POETRY $200: At an early age this "Divine Comedy" poet began to write love poems in the style of Guido Guinizelli Dante |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | POETS & POETRY $600: This lord's long southern European trip furnished material for his "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Lord Byron |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | POETS & POETRY $800: This Irish poet who died in 1939 is buried near Sligo "Under bare Ben Bulben's head" William Butler Yeats |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | POETS & POETRY $1000: He won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Age of Anxiety" 2 years after becoming an American citizen W.H. Auden |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | POETS & POETRY $200: Of the 31 pilgrims in this Chaucer work, only 23 tell their stories The Canterbury Tales |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | POETS & POETRY $400: This Longfellow poem was suggested by a smithy under a chestnut tree in Cambridge, Massachusetts "The Village Blacksmith" |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | POETS & POETRY $600: Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this ship, "Oh better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave" "Old Ironsides" |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | POETS & POETRY $800: His "When the Frost is on the Punkin" was written for a series in the Indianapolis Journal (James Whitcomb) Riley |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | POETS & POETRY $1000: He was descended from an Abyssinian prince, Peter the Great's godson (Aleksandr) Pushkin |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POETS $200: This poet's row house in Camden, N.J. displays a rare first edition of his "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POETS $400: He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POETS $600: Her nickname "The Portuguese" derives from her poem about a Portuguese woman, "Catarina to Camoens" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POETS $800: Collections by this humorist include "The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse" & "I'm A Stranger Here Myself" Ogden Nash |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POETS $1000: The initials in the name of this poet stood for edward estlin E.E. Cummings |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $200: This Illinois poet's "Complete Poems" won in 1951; his "Corn Huskers" shared a 1919 prize Carl Sandburg |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $400: In this family, Amy won in 1926 & her cousin Robert won in 1947 the Lowells |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $600: He won 4 times in 3 decades: the 1920s, '30s & '40s Robert Frost |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $1000: 1979's winner, in 1986 he was made the first U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $2,500 (Daily Double): The 2 winners in the 1920s who had Vincent in their names Edna St. Vincent Millay & Stephen Vincent Benet |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $200: This poet's farm in Derry, New Hampshire was purchased for him by his paternal grandfather Frost |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1674 Milton redivided this poem about the fall of man into 12 books instead of the original 10 "Paradise Lost" |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $600: In this Chaucer work, 29 pilgrims gather at the Tabard Inn The Canterbury Tales |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $800: In Great Britain John Masefield served in this post 37 years, longer than anyone except Tennyson Poet Laureate |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In 1924 he published "The New Spoon River", a sequel to a 1915 work (Edgar Lee) Masters |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | EPIC POETS & POETRY $200: He abandoned his long-planned epic about King Arthur to write what became "Paradise Lost" Milton |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | EPIC POETS & POETRY $400: Books 1-3 of this Edmund Spenser work are devoted to the virtues of holiness, temperance & chastity The Faerie Queen |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | EPIC POETS & POETRY $600: Emperor Augustus overturned this poet's request that his "Aeneid" be destroyed after his death Virgil |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | EPIC POETS & POETRY $1000: He wrote a second mock epic, "The Dunciad", as well as "The Rape of the Lock" (Alexander) Pope |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | EPIC POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Tradition holds that this poet lived in the 12th century B.C. in Chios or Smyrna Homer |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $200: Elizabeth Barrett mentioned this future husband in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" before they met Robert Browning |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: Prince Albert sent his copy of "Idylls Of The King" to this poet & asked him to autograph it Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $500 (Daily Double): In "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", Wordsworth wrote about "A crowd, a host of golden" ones daffodils |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $600: Written in 1811, this lord's poem "Farewell To Malta" begins, "Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!" Lord Byron |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1000: He called "Prometheus Unbound" "The best thing I ever wrote" Percy B. Shelley |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | POETS $200: Her father, Edward, was treasurer of Amherst College 1835-1873, & also served in Congress (Emily) Dickinson |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | POETS $400: His "Evangeline" was based in part on a story told to him by Nathaniel Hawthorne Longfellow |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | POETS $600: You can visit this poet's grave & a museum devoted to his life & works in Galesburg, Illinois Carl Sandburg |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | POETS $800: His "Ode on a Grecian Urn" includes the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" Keats |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | POETS $1000: In 1589 Sir Walter Raleigh took this poet to London to publish the first 3 books of "The Faerie Queene" (Edmund) Spenser |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | POETS & POETRY $200: All the stanzas of this Poe poem end with "nothing more", "evermore" or "nevermore" The Raven |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | POETS & POETRY $400: In the Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem, it completes the line that begins, "How do I love thee?" "Let me count the ways" |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | POETS & POETRY $600: Emma Lazarus wrote, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to" do this "breathe free" |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | POETS & POETRY $800: His "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" inspired a Broadway musical T.S. Eliot |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | POETS & POETRY $1000: "They also serve who only stand and wait" is from this poet's "On His Blindness" (John) Milton |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | POETS $200: In 1911 this "Trees" poet's first volume of verse, "Summer of Love" was published Joyce Kilmer |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | POETS $400: He became a reporter for the Chicago Daily News in 1917, a year after his "Chicago Poems" was published Carl Sandburg |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | POETS $600: George Thomson's "Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs" contains many of his songs Robert Burns |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | POETS $800: In a Longfellow poem, this schooner is wrecked "On the reef of Norman's Woe" The Hesperus |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | POETS $1000: His 1892 work "Barrack-Room Ballads" included such poems as "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" & "Danny Deever" Rudyard Kipling |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | WOMEN POETS $200: This "Sonnets from the Portuguese" poet injured her spine at age 15 in a riding accident (Elizabeth Barrett) Browning |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | WOMEN POETS $400: This "Belle of Amherst" dressed in white in her later years Dickinson |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | WOMEN POETS $800: Poet who, in 1883, penned the words "I lift my lamp beside the golden door" (Emma) Lazarus |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | WOMEN POETS $900 (Daily Double): In 1956 she married British poet Ted Hughes while in England on a Fulbright scholarship Sylvia Plath |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | WOMEN POETS $1000: Known for her wedding songs, she was born around 620 B.C. on the island of Lesbos Sappho |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | POETS & POETRY $100: Percy Shelley wrote his lyrical drama "Hellas" in this city, known for its leaning tower Pisa |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | POETS & POETRY $200: In 1922 this Illinois poet published a collection called "Slabs of the Sunburnt West" Carl Sandburg |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | POETS & POETRY $300: This lord's 1879 poem "The Defence of Lucknow" concerns the Sepoy Rebellion Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | POETS & POETRY $400: William Wordsworth's poem about this Haitian begins "Toussaint, the most unhappy Man of Men!" Toussaint L'Ouverture |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | POETS & POETRY $500: She wrote "The Rhyme of the Duchess May" & her husband wrote "My Last Duchess" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | POETS & POETRY $200: In 1849 his poems "The Bells" & "Annabel Lee" were published Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | POETS & POETRY $400: He's referred to in the line "It was two by the village clock, when he came to the bridge in Concord Town" Paul Revere |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | POETS & POETRY $600: These 2 epics are the oldest surviving Greek poems, both probably dating from the 700s B.C. theIliad & the Odyssey |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | POETS & POETRY $800: In 1814 he abandoned his wife, Harriet Westbrook, & ran off with 16-year-old Mary Godwin Shelley |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In this poem Frost wrote, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out" "Mending Wall" |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | POETS & POETRY $200: Lord Byron's poem "The Island" was inspired by the mutiny on this ship the Bounty |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Mending Wall" ends with this famous phrase about barriers good fences make good neighbors |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | POETS & POETRY $600: He began "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" after the death of a friend, Richard West Gray |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | POETS & POETRY $800: He wrote the humorous verse "I don't mind eels except as meals" (Ogden) Nash |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | POETS & POETRY $1000: His "An Essay on Criticism" includes the line "A little learning is a dangerous thing" (Alexander) Pope |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | POETS $200: This New England poet published his first major collection, "A Boy's Will", while living in Old England Robert Frost |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | POETS $400: This poet laureate wrote poems on "The Death of the Duke of Wellington" & "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Tennyson |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | POETS $600: She died in 1887, before her "New Colossus" was placed on the Statue of Liberty Emma Lazarus |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | POETS $800: After his death, this poet's ashes were interred near the grave of John Keats Shelley |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | POETS $1000: His poem "I Sing The Body Electric" was initially published without a title in 1855 Walt Whitman |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | POETS $200: A music lover, he once said, "But for opera, I could never have written 'Leaves of Grass"' Whitman |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | POETS $400: T.S. Eliot said this lord "is a, great poet... whatever he sets out to do, he succeeds in doing" Tennyson |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | POETS $800: This author of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" began writing poetry as a child in Wales (Dylan) Thomas |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | POETS $1000: Born in Highgate in 1812, he was nicknamed "Poet Laureate of the Limerick" Edward Lear |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | POETS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1838 this poet & her family moved to 50 Wimpole Street Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | POETS & POETRY $200: It's thought that "Annabel Lee" was a tribute to his deceased wife Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | POETS & POETRY $400: While writing the original 12 poems of "Leaves of Grass", he built houses for a living Walt Whitman |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | POETS & POETRY $600: From 1835 to 1854, this "Evangeline" poet was a professor of modern languages at Harvard Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | POETS & POETRY $800: "I never spoke with God nor visited In Heaven" is from her poem "I Never Saw a Moor" Dickinson |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In a 1939 elegy W.H. Auden wrote of this man, "mad Ireland hurt you into poetry" William Butler Yeats |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | POETS $200: Before the first edition of "Leaves of Grass", he wrote a novel, "Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate" Walt Whitman |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | POETS $400: Arthur Rimbaud's most famous work, "Une saison en enfer", translates as "A Season in" this place hell |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | POETS $600: Matsuo Basho is best known as the progenitor of the modern form of this 3-line poem haiku |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | POETS $800: The bell tolled for this "Death Be Not Proud" poet in 1631 John Donne |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | POETS $1000: His first book-length poem, "Montage of a Dream Deferred", describes the variety of Harlem life Langston Hughes |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | POETS $200: 7 days after her marriage to Robert Browning, she left Wimpole Street never to return Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | POETS $400: His 1916 collection "Mountain Interval" contained the poem "The Road Not Taken" (Robert) Frost |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | POETS $600: The Grand Masonic Lodge of Scotland dubbed him "Caledonia's Bard" (Rabbie) Burns |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1847 & 1848 she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts (Emily) Dickinson |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | POETS $1000: In addition to writing "The New Colossus" she translated works by Victor Hugo & Goethe Emma Lazarus |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | POETS $200: "Paul Revere's Ride" was the first poem in his "Tales of a Wayside Inn", published in 1863 Longfellow |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | POETS $400: This Scot is perhaps best known for his songs "Auld Lang Syne" & "Comin' Thro' The Rye" (Rabbie) Burns |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | POETS $600: On July 30, 1918 this "Trees" author was killed while serving with the 165th Infantry near Seringes, France Joyce Kilmer |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | POETS $800: The grandfather of this epigrammatic poet was one of the founders of Amherst College Emily Dickinson |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | POETS $1000: In "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd", he compared Lincoln to Venus which "droop'd in the western sky" (Walt) Whitman |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $200: In 1598 Edmund Spenser was made sheriff of Cork County in this part of the British Isles Ireland |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $400: The title of Hagiwara Sakutaro's 1917 book of poetry translates as "Barking at" this heavenly body the moon |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $600: In the 19th c. Kalvos & Solomos were leading members of this country's Ionian School of Poetry Greece |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $800: The 14th c. poet Dafydd ap Gwilym wrote some 150 poems in this, his native language Welsh |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $1000: He began writing "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" during a visit to Albania Lord Byron |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | POETS $200: During the Spanish- American War, this "Chicago" poet served in the 6th Illinois infantry Sandburg |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | POETS $400: The only prose work by this "Idylls of the King" poet was a play, "The Promise of May" Tennyson |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | POETS $600: In 1830 he wrote of "Old Ironsides", "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high" Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | POETS $800: This poet modeled his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" on Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | POETS $1000: Almost all of his early works, including "Pippa Passes", were printed at his family's expense Robert Browning |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | WOMEN POETS $200: The line "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" appeared in her poem "News Item" Dorothy Parker |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | WOMEN POETS $400: This poet's only novel was "The Bell Jar" published in 1963 Sylvia Plath |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | WOMEN POETS $600: A chapter in "The House of Seven Gables" may have influenced her "I heard a fly buzz-when I died" Emily Dickinson |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | WOMEN POETS $700 (Daily Double): During her last decade this British poet lived in the Casa Guidi in Florence, Italy Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | WOMEN POETS $1000: This Black American is the poet laureate of Illinois Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | POETS $100: His poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, was first published July 31, 1786, in Kilmarnock Robert Burns |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | POETS $200: Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece, "Les Fleurs du mal", translates as these "of Evil" Flowers |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | POETS $300: This poet first published her novel, "The Bell Jar", under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas Sylvia Plath |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | POETS $400: Lucinda Matlock, in the "Spoon River Anthology", was based on his grandmother, Lucinda Masters Edgar Lee Masters |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | POETS $500: His collection, "The Children of the Night", contained his frequently reprinted poem "Richard Cory" Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | POETS $200: This Lincoln biographer was born in Galesburg, Ill. 20 years after Lincoln debated Douglas there Carl Sandburg |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | POETS $400: Margaret Atwood's 2nd book of poems, "The Circle Game", won this country's Gov. General's award Canada |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | POETS $600: She dedicated "Aurora Leigh" to her cousin John Kenyon, not to her husband Robert Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | POETS $800: The early 20th century poet Olaf Bull is considered the Keats of this Scandinavian country Norway |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | POETS $1000: "When the Frost is on the Punkin" is one of this Indianan's most beloved poems (James Whitcomb) Riley |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | POETS & POETRY $200: In her youth this poet who wrote of her candle burning at both ends was called Vincent Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Conquistador", about the conquest of this country, earned Archibald MacLeish a 1933 Pulitzer Prize Mexico |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | POETS & POETRY $600: He dedicated "Idylls of the King" to the memory of Prince Albert Tennyson |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | POETS & POETRY $800: In 1712 he published his first version of "The Rape of the Lock" (Alexander) Pope |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | POETS & POETRY $1000: His first volume of poems, "The Hawk in the Rain", was published the year he & Sylvia Plath moved to America Ted Hughes |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | POETS $100: It was convenient that Edmund Spenser died in London, because he was buried in Poets' Corner here Westminster Abbey |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | POETS $200: Collier's' Ency. claims this author of "The Bells" was "a great swimmer" & "did not write while drunk" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | POETS $300: He wrote the poem "Chicago Poet" for "Cornhuskers", his 1918 collection Carl Sandburg |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | POETS $400: "Heroic Stanzas" was John Dryden's memorial to this lord protector of England Oliver Cromwell |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | POETS $500: This lord's mistress Teresa Guiccioli published a book about him in 1868, 44 years after his death (Lord) Byron |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | POETS & POETRY $200: Walt Whitman wrote a poem called "Passage to" this country decades before E.M. Forster's novel India |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | POETS & POETRY $400: This poet's widow sold all the rights to "Paradise Lost" for a mere £8 Milton |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | POETS & POETRY $600: He used the word "if" 14 times in his poem "If", if you count the title Kipling |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | POETS & POETRY $800: Edinburgh-born poet & novelist who wrote the romantic 1808 poem "Marmion, a tale of Flodden Field" Sir Walter Scott |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | POETS & POETRY $1000: This Lake Poet finished a draft of "The Prelude" in 1805 & kept revising it for 45 years William Wordsworth |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | POETS $200: This Welsh poet born Oct. 27, 1914 had a first name that can mean "son of the waves" Dylan Thomas |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | POETS $400: With poet Robert Southey, this "Kubla Khan" writer planned to build a Utopian society in Pennsylvania Coleridge |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | POETS $600: This English poet's c. 1369 work "The Book of the Duchess" was an elegy on John of Gaunt's first wife Chaucer |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | POETS $800: The closing poem in "Lyrical Ballads" was his "lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" Wordsworth |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | POETS $1000: The line "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" is from his "An Essay on Man" Alexander Pope |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | POETS $200: This poet helped compile "The Scots Musical Museum", an 18th c. collection of Scottish folk songs (Rabbie) Burns |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | POETS $400: In 1386 this poet was elected to Parliament as a Knight of the Shire for Kent Chaucer |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | POETS $800: After her death in 1886, this poet's sister Lavinia found her poems & had them published Emily Dickinson |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | POETS $1000: This English poet was the inspiration for Shelley's elegy "Adonais" Keats |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | POETS $1,500 (Daily Double): Soon after his 1809 birth, his parents died & he was taken to the Richmond, Va. home of Mr. & Mrs. John Allan Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | POETS & POETRY $200: "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary", Edgar Allan Poe began this poem "The Raven" |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | POETS & POETRY $400: Edwin Arlington Robinson began his Arthurian trilogy with a poem about this magician Merlin |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | POETS & POETRY $600: In "The Vision of Sir Launfal", James Russell Lowell asked, "What is so rare as a day in" this month June |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | POETS & POETRY $800: In 1757 this poet famous for his "Elegy" was offered the laureateship of England, but turned it down (Thomas) Gray |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the longest poem in Walt Whitman's collection "Leaves of Grass" "Song of Myself" |
| #2167, aired 1994-01-25 | POETS $800: This German was 82 when he finished "Faust" in 1832 Goethe |
| #2167, aired 1994-01-25 | POETS $1000: Author of the ode "To Autumn", he wrote as his own epitaph "Here lies one whose name was writ in water" John Keats |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | POETS & POETRY $200: Kipling called this regimental water-carrier "The finest man I knew" Gunga Din |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | POETS & POETRY $400: "The Road Not Taken" is the opening poem in his "Mountain Interval" (Robert) Frost |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | POETS & POETRY $600: Completes the Joyce Kilmer couplet "Poems are made by fools like me..." "...but only God can make a tree" |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | POETS & POETRY $800: Richard Lovelace wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars" this a cage |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | POETS & POETRY $1000: The poems in her 1971 collection "Winter Trees" date from the last year of her life (Sylvia) Plath |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | POETS & POETRY $200: William Wordsworth wrote, "My heart leaps up when I behold" one of these colorful arches "in the sky" a rainbow |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: "New Hampshire", a poem with notes & grace notes, earned this poet the first of his four Pulitzers Robert Frost |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | POETS & POETRY $600: In 1971, a copy of his original manuscript for "The Waste Land" was published, with an introduction by his widow T.S. Eliot |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, "My candle burns at both ends; it will not" do this Last the Night |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | POETS & POETRY $1,600 (Daily Double): After writing about "The Wreck of the Hesperus", he wrote "The Building of the Ship" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | BRITISH POETS $200: His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was published in 1786 with about half the 600 copies pre-sold Robert Burns |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | BRITISH POETS $400: Before this poet died on October 25, 1400, he was living in a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | BRITISH POETS $600: The first line of this poet's "Endymion" is "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" John Keats |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | BRITISH POETS $1000: In 1714, two years after "The Rape of the Lock" was first published, he expanded it from 2 cantos to 5 Alexander Pope |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | BRITISH POETS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1883 Queen Victoria gave this poet laureate the title "Baron of Aldworth & Freshwater" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2106, aired 1993-11-01 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Poet & mystery author whose 1849 poem "To My Mother" is a tribute to the mother of his late child bride Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2106, aired 1993-11-01 | POETS & POETRY $3,500 (Daily Double): Kobayashi Issa was an 18th century master of this poetic form the haiku |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | POETS & POETRY $200: His last volume of poetry, "The Raven and other Poems", was published in 1845 Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | POETS & POETRY $400: This poet's birthplace in Galesburg, Ill. displays a first edition of his Lincoln biography Sandburg |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | POETS & POETRY $500 (Daily Double): Before he died this poet requested that "Crossing the Bar" appear last in his collections Tennyson |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | POETS & POETRY $600: In a Lewis Carroll poem, these two title characters "were walking close at hand" the Walrus & the Carpenter |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | POETS & POETRY $800: A poem about him begins, "Come, all you rounders, if you want to hear a story 'bout a brave engineer" Casey Jones |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $200: He wrote, "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars" Walt Whitman |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $400: His prose poem "Kaddish" is an elegy for his mother, Naomi Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $600: He was a poet before he started writing stories & novels about Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $800: "A bar of steel--it is only smoke at the heart of it", he wrote in "Smoke and Steel" Carl Sandburg |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): The poet who wrote, "I fear thee, Ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand!" (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | POETS $100: Her "Last Poems" were compiled by her husband Robert & published the year after her death Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | POETS $200: In 1982 this Welsh poet was honored posthumously with a plaque in Westminster Abbey Dylan Thomas |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | POETS $300: This poet won his fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for "A Witness Tree" Robert Frost |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | POETS $400: Nicknamed "Old Possum", he wrote "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" T.S. Eliot |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | POETS $500: His first major work, "The New Life", written circa 1292, describes his love for Beatrice Dante |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | POETS' NICKNAMES $200: Henry David Thoreau was "The Sage of" this "pond" Walden Pond |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | POETS' NICKNAMES $400: His nickname, "The Good Gray Poet", came from a pamphlet that defended his "Leaves of Grass" (Walt) Whitman |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | POETS' NICKNAMES $600: He was "The Peasant Bard" of Scotland (Rabbie) Burns |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | POETS' NICKNAMES $800: Born circa 1343, he became "The Father of English Poetry" Chaucer |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | POETS' NICKNAMES $1000: This man who wrote "The Children's Hour" for his own daughters was "The Children's Poet" Longfellow |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $200: Some of his early poems like "The Brigs of Ayr" imitated those of another Scottish poet, Robert Fergusson Robert Burns |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $400: The white oak which is said to have inspired his "Trees" poem was located at Rutgers University Joyce Kilmer |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $600: In poem No. 712 she wrote, "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me" Emily Dickinson |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $800: Ethel Lynn Beers' famous poem about a Civil War soldier begins, "All quiet along" this river the Potomac |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $1000: On the death of John Keats in 1821, this poet wrote "Adonais" Shelley |
| #1910, aired 1992-12-18 | POETS $200: His fiancee Mary Campbell was the subject of his poem "Highland Mary" Robbie Burns |
| #1910, aired 1992-12-18 | POETS $400: This lord wrote, "O God! It is a fearful thing to see the human soul take wing" Lord Byron |
| #1910, aired 1992-12-18 | POETS $600: She published "Revolutionary Petunias", a collection of poems, 9 years before "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
| #1910, aired 1992-12-18 | POETS $800: The last section of his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is called "The Epitaph" (Thomas) Gray |
| #1910, aired 1992-12-18 | POETS $1000: This female poet was the subject of Hugh Whitemore's play "Stevie" Stevie Smith |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $100: Emily Dickinson was extremely prolific during this U.S. war, writing hundreds of poems the Civil War |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $200: Goethe wrote an epic poem about Reineke, or Reynard, one of these animals a fox |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $300: Ben Jonson wrote "To Celia", to this "to me only with thine eyes..." drink |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $400: In "Spell of the Yukon", Robert W. Service wrote, "I wanted" this metal, "and I sought it" gold |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $500: This lord's 1850 elegy "In Memoriam" was about his close friend Arthur Henry Hallam (Alfred Lord) Tennyson |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | POETS $200: Her poem inspired "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" inspired Robert to write to her; they eventually married Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | POETS $400: Gabriela Mistral of Chile was the 1st Latin American woman to win this prize for literature the Nobel Prize |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | POETS $600: When Walt Whitman's brother George was wounded during this war, Walt went to Va. to nurse him the American Civil War |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | POETS $800: He subtitled his nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark" "An Agony in Eight Fits" Lewis Carroll |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | POETS $1000: This Lake Poet succeeded his friend Robert Southey as Poet Laureate in 1843 Wordsworth |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | POETS & POETRY $200: The only well-known poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, it describes a baseball defeat "Casey at the Bat" |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | POETS & POETRY $400: John Donne's "Song" begins, "Go and catch a falling" one of these a star |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | POETS & POETRY $600: Robert Herrick wrote a "Prayer to" this poet in which he called him "Saint Ben" Ben Jonson |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | POETS & POETRY $800: Scotsman who wrote about his wife, "There's not a bonie bird that sings, but minds me o' my Jean" (Robert) Burns |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a cycle of sonnets about this musician who journeyed to Hades Orpheus |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | POETS $200: In 1831 he wrote a book of poetry called "Leaves of Autumn" & a novel about a hunchback Victor Hugo |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | POETS $400: John Dryden was appointed to this poetic post in 1668 & became Royal Historiographer 2 years later Poet Laureate |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | POETS $600: The ancient poet Pindar wrote his lyric poems in this language Greek |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | POETS $800: Edna St. Vincent Millary graduated from this college in Poughkeepsie in 1917 Vassar |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | POETS $1000: The Elizabethan courtier & explorer who wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | POETS & POETRY $200: Lord Byron rhapsodized, "She walks in" this, "like the night" beauty |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | POETS & POETRY $400: The noted actor & playwright Colley Cibber was appointed to this poetic office in 1730 poet laureate |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | POETS & POETRY $600: This Hoosier poet wrote his 1890 poem "The Raggedy Man" in Hoosier dialect James Whitcomb Riley |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | POETS & POETRY $800: According to Leigh Hunt, "Jenny" did this to "me when we met" -- how romantic kissed me |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Vachel Lindsay's poem about the death of this Salvation Army founder was written to be sung General William Booth |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | POETS $200: "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was his first published collection of poems Robert Burns |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | POETS $400: Years before his 1st volume of poetry was published in 1913, he was a chicken farmer in Derry, N.H. Robert Frost |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | POETS $600: Poet & Lincoln biographer who wrote about Lincoln's death in "Cool Tombs" Sandburg |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | POETS $800: While England's poet laureate, he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Tennyson |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | POETS $1000: This Quaker poet's "Snow-Bound" tells the story of a family isolated during a blizzard John Greenleaf Whittier |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | POETS & POETRY $200: In his poem "The Bridge", Hart Crane used this NYC bridge to symbolize America the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | POETS & POETRY $400: The proverbial first line of a Robert Herrick poem says "Gather" these "while ye may" rosebuds |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | POETS & POETRY $600: In a poem of the same title, Dylan Thomas warned, "Do not go gentle into" this that good night |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | POETS & POETRY $800: His first collection of poems included "To a Mouse" & "To a Louse" Robert Burns |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | POETS & POETRY $1000: He wrote,
"beauty is truth,
Truth beauty" Keats |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | POETS $200: She was "The Portuguese" in "Sonnets from the Portuguese" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | POETS $400: Reportedly his "Ode to a Nightingale" was written under a plum tree in about 2 or 3 hours Keats |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | POETS $600: This poet's novella "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" inspired Melville's "Moby Dick" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1936 this poet's autobiography "Across Spoon River", was published (Edgar Lee) Masters |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | POETS $1000: This "Tintern Abbey" poet was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 1843 William Wordsworth |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | POETS & POETRY $100: Ogden Nash said this man "crossed the Delaware with a boat, the Potomac, with a dollar" George Washington |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | POETS & POETRY $200: T.S. Eliot wrote, "This is the way the world ends not with a bang" but this a whimper |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | POETS & POETRY $300: "The gingham dog went 'bow-wow-wow!' and" this cat 'replied 'mee-ow!"' calico |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | POETS & POETRY $400: Robert Frost wrote, "he will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with" this snow |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | POETS & POETRY $600 (Daily Double): She called bees "buccaneers of buzz" in her poem No. 1405 Emily Dickinson |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | POETS $200: In 1838, she moved with her family to 50 Wimpole Street in London Elizabeth Barrett |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | POETS $400: British poet who wrote, "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you" Rudyard Kipling |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | POETS $600: In his 30s, he supplemented his income by teaching at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire Robert Frost |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | POETS $800: As a wedding gift, this poet's father-in-law gave him Craigie House in Cambridge, Massachusetts Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | POETS $2,000 (Daily Double): This black poetess won a Pulitzer for "Annie Allen" & became Illinois' poet laureate in 1969 Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | POETS & POETRY $200: Part II of this Coleridge poem ends, "Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | POETS & POETRY $400: The line "Good fences make good neighbors" is from his poem "Mending Wall" Robert Frost |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | POETS & POETRY $500 (Daily Double): The boathouse in Laugharne where this poet lived in the early 1950s is now a museum Dylan Thomas |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | POETS & POETRY $800: This poet's father was treasurer of Amherst College & later a U.S. Congressman Emily Dickinson |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | POETS & POETRY $1000: His poem about daffodils opens, "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales & hills" Wordsworth |
| #1630, aired 1991-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $200: Richard Lovelace wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor"
these "a cage" Iron Bars |
| #1630, aired 1991-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $400: In this poem, there are two out, two on base, & the score is:
Opponents, 4
Mudville, 2 "Casey at the Bat" |
| #1630, aired 1991-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $600: One of his sonnets begins, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" William Shakespeare |
| #1630, aired 1991-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Edwin Arlington Robinson character who "one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head" Richard Cory |
| #1630, aired 1991-10-04 | POETS & POETRY $1000: This Englishman published his translation of "The Rubyyat" anonymously in 1859 Edward Fitzgerald |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $100: This Walt Whitman work began as a collection of 12 poems in 1855; by 1892 it contained hundreds Leaves of Grass |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $200: This Scottish poet wrote an ode to "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785" (Rabbie) Burns |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $400: Ludovico Ariosto wrote the romantic epic about this "furioso" paladin Orlando |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $500: He said his title for "The Waste Land" was suggested by a book on the Grail legend T.S. Eliot |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $1,600 (Daily Double): This Scotsman's original title for "A Child's Garden of Verses" was "Penny Whistles" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | POETS $200: Joyce Kilmer taught Latin for a year at Morristown High School in this, his home state New Jersey |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | POETS $400: His castle was destroyed by fire in 1598 & much of "The Faerie Queene" may have gone up in smoke Spenser |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | POETS $600: First name shared by New England poetesses
Bradstreet & Sexton Anne |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | POETS $800: Robinson Jeffers’ adaptation of Euripides' tragedy about her was produced on Broadway
in 1947 Medea |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | POETS $1000: Sadly, he became addicted to opium soon after moving to the Lake District in 1800 (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | POETS $200: His wife, Aline Kilmer, was a poet, too Joyce Kilmer |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | POETS $400: This title was bestowed on Edith Sitwell in 1954 Dame of the British Empire |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | POETS $600: Clarence Darrow was once a law partner of this poet, who wrote "The New Spoon River" in 1924 Edgar Lee Masters |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | POETS $800: He wrote, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Keats |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | POETS $1000: "Letters Home", a volume of her correspondence, was published in 1975, 12 years after her suicide Sylvia Plath |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $200: As you might expect, Tennyson was buried in this famous section of Westminster Abbey Poets' Corner |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $400: His original first name was Nicholas but we know him better by his middle name, Vachel Lindsay |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $600: One of A.E. Housman's poignant poems is titled "To An Athlete" doing this "Young" Dying |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $700 (Daily Double): British Romantic poet seen in the following portrait wearing an Albanian costume: (Lord) Byron |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $800: He was very well-read but his formal education ended at Swansea Grammar School in Wales Dylan Thomas |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | POETS & POETRY $200: In Sir Walter Scott's poem, it precedes "when first we practice to deceive" "Oh, what a tangled web we weave" |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: Oliver Wendell Holmes began this poem, "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high" "Old Ironsides" |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | POETS & POETRY $600: The title of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was suggested by this author of "On the Road" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Poetess who wrote "I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you--nobody--too?" (Emily) Dickinson |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Edmund Waller wrote a poem "To Phyllis" & Ben Jonson wrote a "Song" to her Celia |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | POETS $200: His mother's maiden name was Zilpah Wadsworth, hence his middle name Longfellow |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | POETS $600: Reader's Ency. says her best poem is "The Dance to Death", not "The New Colossus" Emma Lazarus |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | POETS $800: This Illinois poet's stories for children include "Potato Face" & "Rootabaga Pigeons" Carl Sandburg |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | POETS $1000: After marrying a poet, this poetess wrote, "Papa thinks that I have sold my soul - for genius" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | POETS $2,500 (Daily Double): He won a 1924 Pulitzer Prize for "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes" Frost |
| #1478, aired 1991-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $200: A.E. Housman heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas but not" this "away" your heart |
| #1478, aired 1991-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $400: He "howled", "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" Allen Ginsberg |
| #1478, aired 1991-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $800: Completes R.L. Stevenson's line "Home is the sailor, home from the sea and the hunter..." home from the hill |
| #1478, aired 1991-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Shelley wrote "to a Skylark", but Keats wrote an "Ode to" this songbird a Nightingale |
| #1478, aired 1991-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Wordsworth said this "is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" the world |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | WOMEN POETS $200: She was a poet before she turned to "purple" prose--"The Color Purple", that is Alice Walker |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | WOMEN POETS $400: She wrote, "Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live." Dorothy Parker |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | WOMEN POETS $600: This reclusive poet may have been in love with Samuel Bowles, an editor of the Springfield Republican Emily Dickinson |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | WOMEN POETS $800: She was so active in the Imagism movement that Ezra Pound called it "Amy-gism" Amy Lowell |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | WOMEN POETS $1000: The story that this ancient Greek poetess drowned herself for love of Phaon is probably untrue Sappho |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | POETS $200: Italian poet whose last name was Alighieri Dante |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | POETS $400: In "Maid's Metamorphosis" John Lilly wrote, "Night hath a thousand" of these eyes |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | POETS $600: Mark Van Doren & Lionel Trilling both taught this "Howl"ing poet when he studied at Columbia (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | POETS $800: Nonsense poet who wrote a poem titled "Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer" Ogden Nash |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | POETS $1000: "They also serve who only stand and wait" is the last line of this poet's "On His Blindness" (John) Milton |
| #1436, aired 1990-11-26 | POETS & POETRY $200: Poet Robinson Jeffers lived in Carmel in this state for almost 50 years California |
| #1436, aired 1990-11-26 | POETS & POETRY $400: This 14-line verse form can be Petrarchan or Spenserian a sonnet |
| #1436, aired 1990-11-26 | POETS & POETRY $600: Edna St. Vincent Millay said this spring month "comes like an idiot, babbling & strewing flowers" April |
| #1436, aired 1990-11-26 | POETS & POETRY $800: The last line of this John Donne poem is "And death shall be no more, death thou shalt die" "Death, Be Not Proud" |
| #1436, aired 1990-11-26 | POETS & POETRY $1000: In a Tennyson poem, Lancelot said of this lady, "she has a lovely face, God in his mercy lend her grace" The Lady of Shalott |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | POETS & POETRY $100: Julia Ward Howe's visit to the Army of the Potomac in 1861 inspired this famous hymn "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | POETS & POETRY $200: Irving Babbitt, Geo. Santayana & Bertrand Russell were among this Prufrock poet's teachers at Harvard Eliot |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | POETS & POETRY $300: In Eugene Field's "Dutch Lullabye", the names of the 3 wooden shoe sailors Wynken, Blynken, & Nod |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | POETS & POETRY $400: Carroll wrote about the Jabberwock & he wrote of the Jumblies (Edward) Lear |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | POETS & POETRY $500: One of two Elizabethans famous for "Come live with me and be my love" Marlowe (or John Donne) |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | POETS & POETRY $200: Frost wrote, "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in: this, of which Frost is a form ice |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | POETS & POETRY $400: His "O Captain! My Captain!" is a lamentation on the assassination of Lincoln Walt Whitman |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | POETS & POETRY $600: This Quaker poet's "Snowbound" tells of a Quaker family marooned in their farmhouse during a blizzard John Greenleaf Whittier |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | POETS & POETRY $800: For 2 years he edited The Dial, a magazine published by his transcendental club Emerson |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | POETS & POETRY $1000: Keats poem in which you'd find the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | POETS $200: William Butler Yeats wrote his own: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!" an epitaph |
