| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $400: In a 1727 memorial by James Thomson, "Even light it self, which every thing displays, shone undiscovered" until this British thinker Newton |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | POETRY $400: Sylvia Plath's "Parliament Hill Fields" is set in this city that she loved & where she died London |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | PARTNERS IN RHYME $2000: In 1997, this British poet laureate collaborated with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney on editing a poetry anthology Ted Hughes |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | BRITISH POETRY $200: Her 1844 poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" mentions Robert Browning, who soon began his own courtship Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | BRITISH POETRY $400: This poem from 1667 contains the line "His pride had cast him out from heav'n, with all his host of rebel angels" Paradise Lost |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | BRITISH POETRY $600: Robert Burns described this creature as a "cow'rin tim'rous beastie" a mouse |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | BRITISH POETRY $800: In this 1798 poem a sailor laments, "With my cross-bow I shot the albatross" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | BRITISH POETRY $1000: Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar" at age 80 & made this request to all future publishers put it last in his books |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | POETRY FOR PHYSICISTS $400: A poem in "The Da Vinci Code" alludes to the fact that an apple is not depicted on this British physicist's tomb Isaac Newton |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | POETRY $800: These Celtic minstrel poets of the British Isles were the transmitters of heroic poetry bards |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | TEENS & POETRY $1000: Don Juan, the teenage hero of a poem by this British lord, is "tall, handsome, slender, but well knit" Lord Byron |
| #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 |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | POETRY $200: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is this British lord's longest poem other than "Don Juan" Lord Byron |
| #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 |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | BRITISH POETRY $200: No. 1 of these by Shakespeare, "From fairest creatures we desire increase", urges a handsome man to have kids his sonnets |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | BRITISH POETRY $400: Lord Byron was a major influence on this later poet lord who wrote 1842's "The Lord of Burleigh" Tennyson |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | BRITISH POETRY $600: Blake asked,
"Little" this, "who made thee?... Gave thee clothing of delight, softest clothing, woolly, bright" lamb |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | BRITISH POETRY $1000: This British poet got romantic about "La Belle Dame sans Merci" Keats |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | BRITISH POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Leaving his girl for his duty, Lovelace wrote, "I could not love thee, dear, so much, lov'd I not" this "more" honor |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | DEAF POETRY $400: After his deafness had set in, British poet Algernon Swinburne wrote criticism of this "Tyger Tyger" poet William Blake |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $200: This British Lord Protector spares a maiden's lover in the once-famous poem "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" Cromwell |
| #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 |
| #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 $600: British author who wrote, "'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things...'" Lewis Carroll |
| #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 |
| #2586, aired 1995-11-27 | POETRY $1000: He wrote, "'Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!'" (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #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 |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | POETRY $1,500 (Daily Double): On July 28, 1814 this British poet eloped with Mary Godwin (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $700 (Daily Double): British Romantic poet seen in the following portrait wearing an Albanian costume: (Lord) Byron |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | BRITISH POETRY $200: "Beauty is truth, truth beatuty" wrote Keats in his "Ode on" this vase Grecian Urn |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | BRITISH POETRY $400: John Donne wrote, "Death, be not" this, "though some have called thee mighty & dreadful" proud |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | BRITISH POETRY $600: The golden flowers that danced in Wordworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" daffodils |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | BRITISH POETRY $800: "Do not go gentle into that good night" was written during his father's fatal illness Dylan Thomas |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | BRITISH POETRY $1000: Robert Browning wrote, "Oh, to be in England now that" this month's "there" April |
