1. Which poem by John Gower runs to some 33,000 lines?

2. Which heroic poem, named after a Scandinavian hero, is considered the earliest European vernacular epic?

3. What poets wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress (1951)?

4. Who wrote Seven Types of Ambiguity, one of the most influential works about poetry during the first half of the 20th century?

5. What is the name of the Persian national epic poem, which was completed in 1010?

6. Which poet introduced the ideas of Renaissance theorists to England in his treatise The Defence of Poesie?

7. Who wrote the poem “The Wild Swans at Coole”?

8. Which is the earliest known English play written in blank verse?

9. Whose book-length poem Omeros retells Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in a 20th-century Caribbean setting?