This hero is one of the most notorious lovers and seducers of women in literature.
Who is Don Juan?
100
The Mariner is forced by his crew to wear this around his neck.
What is an albatross?
100
One of the most influential of all Victorian Agnostics and writer of "Dover Beach".
Who is Matthew Arnold?
100
Poet Laureate known as one of the founders of romanticism and one of the greatest English lyrical poets.
Who is William Wordsworth?
100
These two romantics worked together on the Lyrical Ballads.
Who are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
200
This type of romanticized, wicked, flawed hero or antihero exhibits idealistic traits, defies authority and morality, and is usually portrayed in a sympathetic manner.
What is the Byronic Hero?
200
This event is where the Mariner tells his tale.
Where is a wedding?
200
In his poem, the lady weaves a tapestry of the sights of the outside world that are shown to her in a mirror on her wall.
Who is Lord Alfred Tennyson? ("The Lady of Shalott")
200
He wrote of the numbness he felt from hearing the nightingale sing.
Who is John Keats?
200
These two Victorian poets wrote letters for over twenty months before eloping and fleeing to Italy
Who are Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
300
The poem that introduced the Byronic hero.
What is "Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage"?
300
These two are on the ship that approaches when the sailors are stuck at sea.
Who are Death and Life-in-Death?
300
One of his poems begins: "Glory be to God for dappled things".
Who is Gerard Hopkins? ("Pied Beauty")
300
He wrote a poem that contains a line we hear a lot around the New Year. "Should auld acquaintance be forgot"
Who is Robert Burns? ("Auld Lang Syne")
300
She helped edit some of her husband's works and she was his second wife
Who is Mary Shelley, wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley?
400
This character uses his mastery of language and spell-casting to summon seven spirits, from whom he seeks forgetfulness.
Who is Manfred?
400
The winner of the game of dice.
Who is Life in Death?
400
In one of his poems the narrator strangles his lover with her own hair.
Who is Robert Browning? ("Porphyria's Lover")
400
His first book of poems was Poetical Sketches
Who is William Blake?
400
These three friends stuck together on a rainy day, told scary stories which resulted in some very famous works.
Who are Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron?
500
She was one of his many affairs and famously described him as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”.
Who is Lady Caroline Lamb?
500
This act frees the albatross from his neck.
What is prayer?
500
She wrote: I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning? (Sonnet 43)
500
In his poem the lead character's guilt is said to stem from an incestuous relationship with his sister Astarte.
Who is Lord Byron? ("Manfred")
500
Percy Shelley, inspired by this friend's death, wrote "Adonais".