| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $800: While working in Rome, American sculptor Harriet Hosmer befriended these married British poets and cast their clasped hands the Brownings |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE $600: Homophonic last names of Samuel & Ben, whom Samuel wrote about in "Lives of the Poets" Johnson/Jonson |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | POETRY $800: These Celtic minstrel poets of the British Isles were the transmitters of heroic poetry bards |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $2000: "Funeral Blues" by this British poet begins, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" Auden |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | ESSAY $2000: In 1919's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", this American-British poet said poets must learn the work of the past T.S. Eliot |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | POETS $400: This title was bestowed on Edith Sitwell in 1954 Dame of the British Empire |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $700 (Daily Double): British Romantic poet seen in the following portrait wearing an Albanian costume: (Lord) Byron |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | POETS $800: This Bombay-born poet & novelist was a first cousin of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Rudyard Kipling |
