| Question | Answer |
| Wrote Elegy in a Country Churchyard. | Thomas Gray |
| 20th century American poet who wrote Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| 19th century American poet who wrote about death and dying with those words often in the titles. | Emily Dickinson |
| 13-14th century Italian poet who wrote the Divine Comedy. | Dante |
| German poet who wrote Faust. | Goethe |
| 19th century American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass, O Captain, My Captain, and I Hear America Singing. | Walt Whitman |
| American poet and political essayist who wrote the Wasteland. | T.S. Elliot |
| 20th century American poet who wrote The Road Not Taken and Mending Wall. Famous quote: "Good fences make good neighbors. | Robert Frost |
| English Metaphysical poet (the only Metaphysical poet they ask). | John Donne |
| 20th century poet and novelist who wrote the Bell Jar (novel) and killed herself. | Sylvia Plath |
| 19th century French poet and novelist (known mostly for his novels Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables) considered the greatest French poet of all times. | Victor Hugo |
| 19th century American poet who wrote Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. | Henry Longfellow |
| 18-19th century English poet who wrote The Tyger (the spelling is correct). | William Blake |
| 20th century Welsh poet who wrote Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night. | Dylan Thomas |
| 20th century symbolic Irish poet who won the Noble prize for literature and wrote The Second Coming, Easter 1916, and Brown Penny. | William Butler Yeats |
| 18-19th century English Romantic poet who wrote the Prelude and Tinturn Abby. | William Wordsworth |
| 19th century British poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade and Crossing the Bar. | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| English poet of the Romantic Era wrote Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| 19th Century English Romantic Lyricist poet who wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn and Eve of St. Anges. | John Keats |
| 20th century American poet of the Beat generation who wrote Howl. | Allen Ginsberg |
| 20th century Chilean poet who greatly inspired Gabriel Garcia Marquez. | Pablo Neruda |
| 19th century English Romantic poet, died young, hung out with Lord Byron, married the author of Frankenstein, and wrote Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark. | Percy Shelly |
| 19th century American poet who wrote The Raven among other short stories and poems. | Edgar Allen Poe |
| 20th century American poet who wrote tulips and chimneys and was know for odd capitalization and punctuation. | e. e. cummings |
| 19th Century English Romantic poet wrote Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and She Walks in Beauty. | Lord Byron |
| 20-21st century African American poet who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. | Maya Angelou |
| 20th century French anarchist poet. | Andre Breton |
| 16-17th century English poet and playwright who is considered the greatest English language writer and wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets. | William Shakespeare |
| 20th century African American poet born in Joplin Missouri who wrote jazz poetry and greatly influenced the Harlem Renaissance. | Langston Hughes |
| Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey | Homer |
| 18th century Scottish poet considered the national poet of Scotland who wrote Auld Lang Syne. | Robert Burns |
