Name that Poet Laureate!

Answers

1. Which poet laureate does Byron address in the opening line of Don Juan?

Southey

2. Which poet laureate wrote 'While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night'?

Tate

3. Which poet laureate celebrates his bicentenary in 2009?

Tennyson

 

4. Which poet laureate was a cousin of Jonathan Swift?

Dryden

5. Which poet laureate does Alexander Pope declare the "Anti-Christ of Wit" in The Dunciad?

Cibber

6. Which poet laureate is honoured with a statue at St Pancras Station?

Betjeman

7. Which poet laureate created a fictional detective modeled on WH Auden?

Cecil Day Lewis

8. Which poet laureate asked for "a tall ship and a star to steer her by"?

John Masefield


 

How did you shape up?

0-3 - Oh dear. Pull your poetic socks up! Put pen to paper, start versifying and enter The National Poetry Competition.

4-6 - Getting better, but stay by the books. You probably know your caesura from your enjambement, but not your Cibber from Eusden. Must try harder! 

7-8 - Merely strides away from becoming the next Poet Laureate. Well done! We'll forward a recommendation to the Queen. Now become a member of the Poetry Society.