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WorksheetsFamous Poets
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who was the poet pictured here? She wrote "Hope is a Thing with Feathers".
Maya Angelou
Jane Eyre
Janis Joplin
Emily Dickenson
Author of "The BFG", he also wrote many poems. Who is he?
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Robert Louis Stevenson
Shel Silverstein
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.", is a famous line from one of his Sonnets, who is this poet?
Walt Whitman
Daniel Defoe
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The creator of limerick poetry, this poet wrote short often inappropriate poems of five lines
Edward Lear
Rhoald Dahl
Langston Huhes
Robert Bisch
This poet wrote many poems during the Harlem Renaissance. Early innovator of the literary art form called jazz poetry.
Chubby Checker
Christopher Pike
Langston Hughes
Edgar Allen Poe
As one of the most innovative poets of his time, he experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A typical poem by him was spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically placed on the page. Between the ages of 8 and 22 he wrote a poem a day.
T.S. Eliot
S.E. Hinton
J.K. Rowling
E.E. Cummings
This poet is also credited with parenting two other popular genres: science fiction and the detective story. He began writing poetry as an adolescent. His poem, "To Helen" is a three stanza lyric that has been called one of the most beautiful love poems in the English language.
Lord Byron
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Rudyard Kipling
This poet had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. She was also a civil rights activist. One of her most famous works is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Harriet Tubman
Maya Angelou
Rosa Parks
Bess Carter
This poet wrote mostly in free verse. One of his most well known poems is "Fog".
Carl Sandburg
John Keats
George Orwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This poet wrote the narrative poem, "The Highwayman". He published his first book of poetry when he was 21 years old. He became a teacher at Princeton University
John Keats
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Noyes
W.E.B. Du Bois
