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Which major Caribbean poet wrote The Arrivants, Middle Passages, and Born to Slow Horses?
This is Kamau Brathwaite, a Barbados-born poet and author of critical works such as History of the Voice and The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica.
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Which Nobel Prize-winning Eastern European poet wrote The World, City Without a Name, and The Unencompassed Earth?
This is the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, who is also known for his nonfiction book denouncing Stalin titled The Captive Mind. Miłosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980.
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Which Nobel Prize-winning Eastern European poet wrote Elegy for John Donne and Other Poems, On Grief and Reason, and To Urania?
This is the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the United States in the 1970s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991.
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The Jamaican poet Jean “Binta” Breeze wrote all of the following except which collection of poetry?
Sea Grapes is a 1976 poetry collection by Derek Walcott.
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Which Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet wrote Omeros, a contemporary Caribbean epic poem that loosely reimagines Homer’s Iliad?
This is the St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott, an important post-colonial writer. Omeros was published in 1990 and contains characters with mythical names such as Achille, Hector, and Helen, although the work itself is set primarily in modern-day St. Lucia.
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Which Caribbean poet wrote the seminal book-length poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land?
This is the Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, an important founder of négritude in French-language literature. Césaire’s work also includes plays such as A Tempest (based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and critical essays such as Discourse on Colonialism. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land was first published in 1939 in France.
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What is contemporary Japanese poetry called?
All of these terms except “gendai-shi” refer to older, more traditional forms of Japanese poetry.
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Which of the following works is by Russian poet Osip Mandelstam?
“The Lady with the Dog” is by Anton Chekhov, “The Overcoat” is by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Notes from the Underground is by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Pale Fire is by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Which Latin American poet wrote odes to age, ironing, socks, tomatoes, and birdwatching?
This is the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
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Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz wrote which of the following works?
Only The Labyrinth of Solitude is by Octavio Paz. The other works are all novels by Mexican writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
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Peruvian poet César Vallejo wrote which of the following works?
Only Los Heraldos Negros is by Vallejo. The rest are works by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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Which Latin American poet wrote the collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair?
This is Pablo Neruda. He employed a variety of poetic forms, including love poetry, epics, historical works, autobiography and political manifestos.
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Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz wrote which of the following works?
Only The Labyrinth of Solitude is by Octavio Paz. The other works are all novels by Mexican writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
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Which Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet wrote Omeros, a contemporary Caribbean epic poem that loosely reimagines Homer’s Iliad?
This is the St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott, an important post-colonial writer. Omeros was published in 1990 and contains characters with mythical names such as Achille, Hector, and Helen, although the work itself is set primarily in modern-day St. Lucia.
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Peruvian poet César Vallejo wrote which of the following works?
Only Los Heraldos Negros is by Vallejo. The rest are works by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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Which Latin American poet wrote the collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair?
This is Pablo Neruda. He employed a variety of poetic forms, including love poetry, epics, historical works, autobiography and political manifestos.
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Which Caribbean poet wrote the seminal book-length poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land?
This is the Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, an important founder of négritude in French-language literature. Césaire’s work also includes plays such as A Tempest (based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and critical essays such as Discourse on Colonialism. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land was first published in 1939 in France.
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What is contemporary Japanese poetry called?
All of these terms except “gendai-shi” refer to older, more traditional forms of Japanese poetry.
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Which of the following works is by Russian poet Osip Mandelstam?
“The Lady with the Dog” is by Anton Chekhov, “The Overcoat” is by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Notes from the Underground is by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Pale Fire is by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Which Latin American poet wrote odes to age, ironing, socks, tomatoes, and birdwatching?
This is the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
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