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Famous Poets
Scholars' Bowl Famous Poets and their works
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Poems often set in Rural Life in New England Poet at the inauguration of John F Kennedy The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 1874-1963 | Robert Frost |
| Poems deal with themes of DEATH & immortality Was a recluse Wore white clothing Success is Counted Sweetest, I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died, Wild Nights, Wild Nights, A Bird Came Down the Walk, I'm Nobody, Who are You? 1830-1886 | Emily Dickinson |
| Wrote horror stories & poems Inventor of detective fiction The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, A Dream Within a Dream, To Helen 1809-1849 | Edgar Allen Poe |
| The "Good Gray Poet" Leaves of Grass, Oh Captain my Captain, Song of Myself, I Hear America Singing 1819-1892 | Walt Whitman |
| Civil Rights activist Poet at Barack Obama's inauguration Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, And Still I Rise 1928-2014 | Maya Angelou |
| England's Poet Laureate Helped romanticism take hold in English poetry I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud, The Prelude 1770-1850 | William Wordsworth |
| Work was part of the "Harlem Renaissance" Known for his Jazz Poetry Wrote plays and books as well as poetry Harlem, Mother to Son, I, too, The Weary Blues 1902-1967 | Langston Hughes |
| Best known for his children's poetry Wrote "A Boy Named Sue" performed by Johnny Cash Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up 1930-1999 | Shel Silverstein |
| Professor at Harvard First American to translate Dante's "The Divine Comedy" The Sound of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride, Evangeline 1807-1882 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| National poet of Scotland Wrote "Auld Lang Syne" and "Red Red Rose" 1759-1796 | Robert Burns |
| Duo that collected and published folklore. They are among the best-known storytellers of folk tales "Cinderella", "Hansel and Gretel", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Snow White". | Brothers Grimm |
| English Poet He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign preceding "Charge of the Light Brigade," (Crimean War) "In Memoriam," Quote from his poetry: "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| English Poet Wrote Paradise Lost - a retelling of the story of Adam and Eve from the biblical book of Genesis which describes the creation of Heaven and Earth and of Adam and Eve. | John Milton |
| American writer and poet Most famous for writing "Casey at the Bat" which tells the story of a baseball team playing in Mudville trailing in the ninth inning and the hopes of victory rest on the shoulders of the mighty but overconfident Casey. | Ernest Lawrence Thayer |
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