1. Which writers gave the most famous versions (1 German 1 English) of the Pied Piper of Hamelin?

2. Which Caribbean writer's epic work was entitle Omeros?

3. Summoned By Bells was the autiobiography of which 20th Century writer?

4. Who wrote Stop All The Clocks?

5. If I should die think only this of me, is a line from which poem??

6. Who wrote Upon Westminster Bridge?

7. Which epic middle English poem has a narrator called Will and is attributed to William Langland?

8. Leaves of Grass was a collection of works by which writer?

9. Which poetical term means the following :- Suppression of a vowel or syllable in verse for the sake of metrical correctness?

10. The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, Cautionary Tales and Matilda were all works by which writer?

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

 

1. Brothers Grimm & Robert Browning

2. Derek Walcott

3. John Betjeman

4. W.H Auden

5. The Soldier (Rupert Brooke)

6. William Wordsworth

7. Piers Plowman

8. Walt Whitman

9. Elision

10. Hilaire Beloc

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