Q. In his poem ‘Musee des Beaux Arts,’ W.H. Auden describes the painting ‘(The Fall of) Icarus.’ Which Flemish painter made this painting?
a) Rembrandt van Rijn
b) Pieter Paul Rubens
c) Pieter Bruegel
d) Anton van Dijck
Q. Which Welsh poet wrote the following opening stanza of a great villanelle: “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light”?
a) Robert Graves
b) Louis MacNeice
c) Hugh MacDiarmid
d) Dylan Thomas
Q. Which of the following was never poet laureate?
a) Ted Hughes
b) Sylvia Plath
c) John Betjeman
d) Cecil Day-Lewis
Q. ‘The Movement’ was a group of poets that included Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie and Thom Gunn whose work reacted against what seemed to them ‘the verbal accesses of Dylan Thomas, Edith Sitwell and others’. Which poet, known for his Hardyesque pessimism is regarded as the dominant figure of ‘The Movement’?
a) W.H. Auden
b) Harold Pinter
c) Ted Hughes
d) Phillip Larkin
Q. What poet launch the so-called ‘Martian School’ of poetry with his poem ‘A Martian sends a Postcard Home’?
a) Tony Harrison
b) Seamus Heaney
c) Craig Raine
d) James Fenton