Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - Trivia

Trivia Question for April 9

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:49:51 -0400

Question:
When was the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry published?

Answer: In 1890, four years after her death. The edition was largely expurgated and edited to fit the poetic conventions of the time. Further editions came closer to her original style; her distinctive dashes were included in the 1955 edition edited by Thomas H. Johnson.

Trivia Question for April 8

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:49:51 -0400

Question:
What English poet does Johann Wolfgang Goethe pay tribute to as his character Euphorion, child of Helen and Faust, in the second part of his Faust?

Answer: Lord Byron

Trivia Question for April 7

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:49:51 -0400

Question:
What magazine was said to have killed John Keats with its review?

Answer: The Quarterly Review . An unfavorable review of Endymion appeared there shortly before Keats's death of tuberculosis. Byron quipped that the review had killed him (jibing at Keats's famous sensitivity) and wrote this parody of the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin? in a letter to his friend John Murray:"Who Kill'd John Keats?"

Trivia Question for April 6

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:49:51 -0400

Question:
What magazine drew the ire of a young Lord Byron, provoking him to write the poem which would make him famous?

Answer: The Edinburgh Review . A sharp review of Byron's first book Hours of Idleness provoked the poet to write the satirical "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."

Trivia Question for April 5

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:49:51 -0400

Question:
What poet said of Jesus Christ, "He is the only God . . . And so am I and so are you"?

Answer: William Blake.