| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Of poets Marianne & Clement Clarke Moore |
| #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 |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LITERARY GROUPS $400: Poets like Bei Dao of the Misty School of Poetry were exiled from China following the 1989 protests in this Beijing square Tiananmen (Square) |
| #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 |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $1200: Emily Dickinson,
Pablo Neruda &
T.S. Eliot,
to name a few poets |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Boys, you must strive to find your own voice" the Dead Poets Society |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | BYE, GEORGE! $800: After this composer met his "Messiah" in 1759, he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey Handel |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $800: "The Land of Poets & Thinkers"
(Hey Einstein, it's pronounced "GUR-tuh" , not "GO-thee") Germany |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | COUNTRY, PLEASE $2000: The Misty Poets, taking it to the Cultural Revolution China |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PURE POETRY $2000: (Ada Limón reads.) Poets who have read at presidential inaugurations include Robert Frost in 1961 & Maya Angelou, who in 1993 recited this poem that implored, "Lift up your eyes upon / This day breaking for you" "On the Pulse of Morning" |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | THE 12th CENTURY $1200: Poets like Chrétien de Troyes turned stories of knights, kings & chivalry into romances of this type of highly idealized "love" courtly love |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | GODS & MYTHS $2,000 (Daily Double): Pursued by Apollo, the nymph Daphne was transformed into this tree associated with poets a laurel tree |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | THE SECRET OF ACRONYM $800: PEN International originally took its name from an acronym for "poets, essayists", these novelists |
| #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 |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $400: Gregory Corso, one of the leading poets of this hip 1950s movement, incorporated jazz rhythms into his verse the Beat movement |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $2000: For their gallant verses & loyalty to Charles I, 1600s poets like Richard Lovelace were known as these mounted knights cavaliers |
| #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 |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $1600: I was miffed when the National Trust refused to list my gran's cottage in this district known for water & poets the Lake District |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | 4 WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL $5,800 (Daily Double): On Sept. 12, 1846 this pair of poets wed secretly at St. Marylebone Church; the bride lived with dad on Wimpole St. for another week the Brownings (Robert & Elizabeth Barrett) |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | POETRY $1600: A book by Herbert J.C. Grierson about John Donne & other 17th c. poets helped popularize this philosophical adjective for them metaphysical |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | DAYS OF YORE $1200: These lyric poets of southern Europe laid out their rules for poetry in the 14th c. work "Leys d'amors" troubadours |
| #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 |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | PARTNERS IN RHYME $400: Countee Cullen & Claude McKay were influential poets in this "Renaissance" (the) Harlem (Renaissance) |
| #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 |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | GRAB BAG $1200: One of the greatest poets in this language is Dafydd ap Gwilym, who lived in the 1300s Welsh |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD $600: Robin Williams tells his students to seize the day (1989) "Poets" |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | U.K. PLACES $400: Associated with a group of poets, this scenic area gets its name from multiple bodies of water including Derwent Water Lake District |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Charles Dickens asked to be buried quietly in Kent, but he ended up in this section of Westminster Abbey Poets' Corner |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BEFORE & BAFTA $4,000 (Daily Double): Zombies from an AMC drama stand on desks & moan, "O Captain! My Captain!" to Robin Williams The Walking Dead Poets Society |
| #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" |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | MAD ABOUT MADRIGALS $1200: Enriching text with music & vocals, madrigals often employed works by great poets like this heartsick lover of Laura Petrarch |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HEAVY MEDALS $2000: Poets like Gwendolyn Brooks who have traveled on less-taken roads can win the Poetry Society of America Medal named for him (Robert) Frost |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary" Dead Poets Society |
| #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" |
| #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 |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | USE YOUR WORDS $2000: These lyric poets or minstrels of the 11th to the 13th centuries wrote in the Provençal language troubadours |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: An Ancient Egyptian collection of funerary texts that is a Robin Williams film with the message "Carpe diem" the Book of the Dead Poets Society |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $400: Poets write of the evening "song" of this grasshopper relative, as in Archibald Lampman's "The homely" this "gossips at my feet" a cricket |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | * $400: A footnote in Richard Feynman's Caltech lectures scolds these versifiers who say science reduces the stars' beauty poets |
| #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 |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | LITERARY GROUPS $800: In the 1600s the fun-loving Cavalier poets included John Suckling; John Milton was part of the group with this prudish name the Puritans |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $600: "Peace Breaks Out" is John Knowles' sequel to this novel set at a New England boarding school A Separate Peace |
| #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 |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | 17th CENTURY LIT $2000: For imagery about the nature & meaning of the universe, John Donne & others were dubbed these poets metaphysical |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | RETORTS $1000: Boswell quotes him, asked to compare 2 poets: "There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea" Johnson |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | POP CULTURE TEACHERS $800: In "Dead Poets Society", Robin Williams inspires his students with this Latin phrase translated as "seize the day" carpe diem |
| #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 |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | THE PERKS OF BEING A WILDFLOWER $1000: Inspiring poets like this Romantic whose heart filled with pleasure at the sight of daffodils William Wordsworth |
| #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" |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | ART $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In one of his Vatican palace frescoes, called "Parnassus", Raphael celebrated poets both ancient and more recent, with Apollo and the Muses in the center, and in the group here, Dante and Virgil, behind the back of this blind bard Homer |
| #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 |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE NAME OF THE WIND $2000: All the French poets know it's an up-to-60-mph wind that blows in from the Rhone Valley the mistral |
| #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 |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | GRAVE MATTERS $800: When Spenser was buried near Chaucer at Westminster Abbey, the concept of this area was begun Poets' Corner |
| #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 |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | POETRY $400: "The Black Christ" is a 1929 collection of Countee Cullen, one of the finest poets of this NYC literary movement the Harlem Renaissance |
| #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 |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | LITERARY GROUPS $1200: Richard Lovelace & Sir John Suckling were 2 of the gentlemen poets named for these rivals of the Roundheads the Cavaliers |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | LITERARY GROUPS $2000: The 19th century's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of artists & poets included a brother & sister of this family the Rossetti |
| #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 |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | BYE, GEORGE! $600: After this composer met his "Messiah" in 1759, he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey Handel |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | COLD SCIENCE $1600: This coat of ice formed when supercooled water freezes on contact is a homophone of a word used by poets rime |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | I LEFT MY HEART $1600: ...in my beloved Wessex; the ashes of the rest of me were interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner (Thomas) Hardy |
| #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 |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $2000: Non-poets who are non-amateurs prose pros |
| #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 |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $800: The Clapp Library at Wellesley College has the love letters exchanged by these 2 English poets in 1845 & 1846 Barrett and Browning |
| #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 |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $200: From the Latin for "to hear", it was a building where orators, poets & critics would speak an auditorium |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | GREEK ISLANDS $1600: This island in the Aegean was the birthplace of such poets as Alcaeus, Terpander & Sappho Lesbos |
| #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 |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | POETRY $800: These Celtic minstrel poets of the British Isles were the transmitters of heroic poetry bards |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $1200: This former 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman sings e.e. cummings & other poets on the album "Leave Your Sleep" (Natalie) Merchant |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: As well as writing her own poems like "The New Colossus", she also translated the works of other Jewish poets (Emma) Lazarus |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | WORKING WITH PLATO $2000: This work is about an ideal city where justice is complete & imitative poets are exiled Plato's Republic |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1000: Medieval French poets went on at epic length about chivalry in poems called these "de geste" chanson de geste |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | A LOTTA MOTTO $1,000 (Daily Double): In "Dead Poets Society", Robin Williams rhymes "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" with this similar motto "seize the day" |
| #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 |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $800: O Captain!
My Captain!
He played English teacher John Keating in "Dead Poets Society" Robin Williams |
| #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") |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THAT'S A MYTH $1600: Poets gave this name to Amor, the winged boy god of love Cupid |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $1200: Samuel Johnson gave this "philosophical" name to a group of 17th c. poets that included John Donne the metaphysical poets |
| #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 |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | GET YOUR WORDSWORTH HERE! $800: Wordsworth belonged to the school of poets named for this watery district of northern England Lake District (or Country) |
| #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 |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | BLARNEY $200: Now applied to Shakespeare, this word referred originally to Celtic minstrel poets bard |
| #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 |
| #5884, aired 2010-03-25 | NAME THE POET $2000: "Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time" (Sylvia) Plath |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PERMANENTLY AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY $1000: This "Gunga Din" writer was gunga done in 1936 & can be found in Poets' Corner (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | BOB'S YOUR POET $2000: This Boston-born poet was related to astronomer Percival & to fellow poets Amy & James Russell Robert Lowell, Jr. |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | FILM SCHOOL $1600: 1989:
Robin Williams instructs his private school charges to "seize the day" Dead Poets Society |
| #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" |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | MR. "T" $1200: These 11th-13th century poets used a form called "le jeu parti", a verse debate on love troubadours |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | ARTHUR-IAN AUTHORS $2000: The name of this French poet, a subject in Verlaine's "the damned poets", sounds like a Stallone role Arthur Rimbaud |
| #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 |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS $2000: It's a person held in high regard or awarded for great achievements, like certain poets a laureate |
| #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" |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | JEFF $2000: In 1817 Francis Jeffrey coined this geographic term that refers to Southey, Coleridge & Wordsworth the Lake Poets |
| #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 |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | POET-POURRI $800: In 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer became the first poet buried in this London locale's Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | POET-POURRI $1,777 (Daily Double): The legendary "Four Poets" of Lesbos were Alcaeus, Arion, Terpander & her Sappho |
| #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 |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: In 1916 this movement was founded by a group of artists & poets in Zurich; come to ... Dada |
| #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 |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | "T" COUNTRIES $200: Oral epics are sung by poets & composers known as bakhashi in this central Asian "stan" nation Turkmenistan |
| #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 |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | LITERARY STYLES $2000: Samuel Johnson applied this philosophical adjective to 17th c. poets who used elaborate metaphors metaphysical |
| #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 |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $200: Shakespeare,
Milton,
Tennyson Shakespeare |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $400: "King" of nonsense poets
(4) (Edward) Lear |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIES $600: "Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary" Dead Poets Society |
| #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" |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LANDMARK'S THE SPOT $600: Oddly, Olivier & Handel lie in this area of Westminster Abbey, along with Browning & Tennyson Poets' Corner |
| #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 |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | BILLIE HOLIDAY $800: In 1939 "Lady Day" began a long engagement at Cafe Society, a club in this NYC haven for poets & artists Greenwich Village |
| #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) |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska is one of the most famous modern poets in this language Polish |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | ROBIN WILLIAMS ROLES $1200: Prep school English teacher John Keating Dead Poets Society |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | GOULASH $1000: In a "Poets by Middle Name" category, he'd be Stearns T.S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot |
| #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 |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARS $1600: 1989:
Tom Schulman for this tale of "seizing the day" at a prep school Dead Poets Society |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | FASHION HISTORY $2000: This rakish lord of poetry, born in 1788, wore romantic open-neck shirts still popular with poets today Byron |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | LITERARY TERMS $1000: George Herbert & Richard Crashaw weren't known as the Physical Poets but as these poets, a slightly longer term Metaphysical Poets |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | CLASSROOM FILMS $200: 1989:
Robin Williams inspires his prep school students to discover Whitman & Tennyson Dead Poets Society |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | POETRY $400: The French symbolist poets popularized this, a term whose French translation is vers libre free verse |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: Among occupational school nicknames are the Brandeis Judges & the Whittier these Poets |
| #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 Percy 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 |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | SONNETS $2000: Last name of brother & sister poets Dante Gabriel & Christina Georgina, both of whom wrote sonnets Rossetti |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | FOUR $1,000 (Daily Double): Alcaeus, Arion, Sappho &Terpander were the "4 Poets of" this island Lesbos |
| #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 |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: Muhammad Yamin was one of the great poets of this largely Islamic island republic Indonesia |
| #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 |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | BRIT LIT $800: Famous for a set of bawdy stories, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | HARDY HAR HAR $400: Barrie, Housman, Shaw & Kipling were pallbearers at Hardy's funeral at this church; his ashes lie in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey |
| #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 |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: In this black & white horror classic, zombies also "Seize the Day" with Robin Williams Night of the Living Dead Poets Society |
| #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 |
| #3611, aired 2000-04-24 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $500: Consulting poets to the Library of Congress have included Gwendolyn Brooks & this "Road Not Taken" poet Robert Frost |
| #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 |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | POETIC FEET $800: This word for the poetic movement including Keats & Byron is an example of an amphibrach Romantic poets |
| #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 |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $1000: "Witness",
"The Truman Show",
"Dead Poets Society" Peter Weir |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | COLLEGE SPORTS NICKNAMES $800: At the California college named for John Greenleaf Whittier, no team nickname could be fittier the Poets |
| #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..." 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 Of 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 |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $600: It's the title of the movie that featured the following:
"A poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln; now in this class you can either call me 'Mr. Keating', or if you're slightly more daring, 'O Captain! My Captain!'" Dead Poets Society (Robin 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 |
| #3205, aired 1998-07-03 | LOVE QUOTES $200: Samuel Butler rhymed, "Love is a boy by poets styled; then spare the rod and" do this spoil the child |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | LORD BYRON $200: Because of his scandalous life, Byron was refused burial here, among other literary lions Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey |
| #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 |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: The Welsh Eisteddfod originally honored these medieval poets, but not Shakespeare Bards |
| #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 |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | THEY EARNED HALOS $800: He's the patron of poets & of Wales Saint David |
| #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 |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | LIBRARIES $500: This Waco school's Armstrong Browning Library has items relating to poets Robert & Elizabeth Baylor |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $500: Liam Neeson might have "seized the day" in this 1989 film but Robin Williams starred instead Dead Poets Society |
| #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 |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | LOVE $500: Chaucer, Shakespeare & Blake are among the poets who have written that love has this disability It's blind |
| #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 |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | LITERARY GROUPS $600: City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco was a 1950s hangout for these itinerant writers & poets "Beat" writers |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: The ancient poets of India called this longest river of Pakistan "King River" Indus |
| #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 |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | FILMS OF THE '80s $200: Prep school teacher Robin Williams teaches his boys to "Seize the Day" in this Peter Weir film Dead Poets Society |
| #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 |
| #2696, aired 1996-04-29 | LITERARY TERMS $100: Many English poets favored the stanzaic type of this poetic form; Shelley wrote one "To a Skylark" an ode |
| #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 |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | LIBRARIES $1000: The Margaret Clapp Library at Wellesley College has all the love letters sent by this pair of poets Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #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 |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $200: In the 1700s the poets known as the Hartford Wits were also known as this state's Wits Connecticut |
| #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 |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | ROBIN WILLIAMS FILMS $500: Message of teacher Williams to his students in "Dead Poets Society", or the title of a 1986 Williams film seize the day |
| #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 |
| #2547, aired 1995-10-03 | AUTHORS $400: The group of poets known as "The School of" this Quebec city included Emile Nelligan & Albert Lozeau Montreal |
| #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 |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: Eileen Duggan, who was born on South Island in 1894, was one of this country's most famous poets New Zealand |
| #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 |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | "H"ODGEPODGE $100: Cicero reminded us, "There were poets before" this author of "The Iliad" Homer |
| #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 |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Catullus, known for his passionate love poems, is considered one of this empire's greatest poets Rome |
| #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 |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | MUSEUMS $400: The Keats-Shelley Memorial House at the Spanish Steps in this city is devoted to the English romantic poets Rome |
| #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 |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: Disenchanted with German politics, this "Siddhartha" author resigned from the Prussian Academy of Poets in 1931 Hermann Hesse |
| #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 |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $200: Ambrose Bierce called this "a word invented by the poets as a rhyme for 'bliss'" kiss |
| #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 |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | "IN" WORDS $400: Jean Anouilh called this "a force that poets have invented to give themselves importance" inspiration |
| #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 Wasteland" 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 |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | MYTHOLOGY $600: Some poets described this dog as having 50 heads, but he's usually shown with 3 Cerberus |
| #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 |
