Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (24 results returned)

#8086, aired 2019-11-04POETS & POETRY $800: This American's verses include "Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks" (Ogden) Nash
#8071, aired 2019-10-14AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $400: The federal laureate position is technically called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" by this library the Library of Congress
#6444, aired 2012-09-27AMERICAN 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 2012-09-27AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: Poe wrote, "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of" this beautiful maiden Annabel Lee
#6444, aired 2012-09-27AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1200: "Candy is Dandy" is a collection of this humorist's best poetry Ogden Nash
#6444, aired 2012-09-27AMERICAN 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 2012-09-27AMERICAN 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")
#5274, aired 2007-07-12AMERICAN 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 2007-07-12AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $800: This beat poet's father, Louis, was a teacher & a poet in his own right Allen Ginsberg
#5274, aired 2007-07-12AMERICAN 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 2007-07-12AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: In 1922 this poet & Lincoln biographer wrote "Rootabaga Stories" to entertain his 3 daughters Carl Sandburg
#5274, aired 2007-07-12AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2000: Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica" contains the line "A poem should not mean/ but" this be
#5180, aired 2007-03-02AMERICAN 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 2007-03-02AMERICAN 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 2007-03-02AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1200: This line follows "Poems are made by fools like me" "But only God can make a tree"
#5180, aired 2007-03-02AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: Born Dorothy Rothschild, this noted wit began her literary career with a poem published in Vanity Fair Dorothy Parker
#5180, aired 2007-03-02AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1945 this poet laureate of Illinois published her first volume of poetry, "A Street In Bronzeville" Gwendolyn Brooks
#4405, aired 2003-10-31POETS & POETRY $800: Collier's calls this American lyric poet a "typographical innovator" e.e. cummings
#4297, aired 2003-04-15POETS & POETRY $400: In a poem in this 1855 collection, the author introduced himself as "Walt Whitman, an American" Leaves of Grass
#3731, aired 2000-11-20POETS & POETRY $400: In 1945 this South American country's Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature Chile
#3230, aired 1998-09-25POETS & POETRY $600: In the second edition of "Leaves Of Grass", this piece was titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, An American" "Song Of Myself"
#2975, aired 1997-07-04POETS & POETRY $800: This midwestern American poet gained new fame in 1990 with "Iron John: A Book About Men" Robert Bly
#2741, aired 1996-07-01POETS & POETRY $1000: He won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Age of Anxiety" 2 years after becoming an American citizen W.H. Auden
#1207, aired 1989-11-28POETS $1000: This American Poet Laureate won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 & 1989 Richard Wilbur

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#1145, aired 1989-07-21AMERICAN POETS: He wrote a biography that won Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940 & won for his poetry in 1951 Carl Sandburg

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