Identification of World Poetry After 1925

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GRE Subject Test: Literature in English › Identification of World Poetry After 1925

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Which Caribbean poet wrote the seminal book-length poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land?

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The Jamaican poet Jean “Binta” Breeze wrote all of the following except which collection of poetry?

3

Which Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet wrote Omeros, a contemporary Caribbean epic poem that loosely reimagines Homer’s Iliad?

4

Which of the following works is by Russian poet Osip Mandelstam?

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Which Nobel Prize-winning Eastern European poet wrote The World, City Without a Name, and The Unencompassed Earth?

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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?

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Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz wrote which of the following works?

8

What is contemporary Japanese poetry called?

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Peruvian poet César Vallejo wrote which of the following works?

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Which major Caribbean poet wrote The Arrivants, Middle Passages, and Born to Slow Horses?

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