Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925

This is an MCQ-based quiz for GRE on the Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925.

This includes poetry like Sylvia's Death, We Real Cool, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, The Red Wheelbarrow, and Spring and All.

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Which of the following poets was a leading figure in the American countercultural movement of the 1950s?

ee cummings Sylvia Plath Allen Ginsberg Langston Hughes Charles Bukowski

Which of the following poets was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize?

Maya Angelou Langston Hughes Richard Wright Amiri Baraka Gwendolyn Brooks

Which of the following poets was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance?

Richard Wright Langston Hughes Amiri Baraka Maya Angelou Rita Dove

Which of the following poets was not an Imagist?

William Carlos Williams Carl Sandburg Amy Lowell Ezra Pound Conrad Aiken

Which of the following American poets is not known for work that decried the Vietnam War?

Robert Bly Allen Ginsberg Hart Crane Yusef Komunyakaa Grace Paley

The author of the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” (taken from her collection Ariel) was married to which British poet?

W. B. Yeats Ezra Pound W. H. Auden T. S. Eliot Ted Hughes

Which of the following twentieth-century American poets did not frequently embrace untraditional forms or linguistic devices?

e e cummings John Ashbery Hart Crane William Carlos Williams Gertrude Stein

Which African-American poet read work at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration?

Gwendolyn Brooks Zora Neale Hurston Maya Angelou Rita Dove Amiri Baraka

Which of the following twentieth-century poets has not been a United States Poet Laureate?

Joseph Brodsky Philip Levine Rita Dove Natasha Trethewey Charles Bukowski

Which of the following poets could not be described as a nature poet?

Allen Ginsberg Louise Glück Robert Frost Robert Hass Gary Snyder
Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
Questions: 10
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