1. From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ‘Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night’

 

2. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

 

3. ‘The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when?

4. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?

5. Who wrote this famous line: ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate…’

 

6. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

 

7. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

8. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?

 

9. In 1960 ‘The Colossus’ was the first book of poems published by which poetess?

 

10. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?