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Who is the author of The Lost Lunar Baedeker and Insel?
British artist, poet, playwright, actress, and lamp designer Mina Loy wrote The Lost Lunar Baedeker (1923) and Insel (1914).
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Which of the following labels could not be applied to Mina Loy’s work?
Mina Loy’s poetry and fiction are known for their futurist, feminist leanings as well as their emphases on the avant-garde and the bohemian life-style. Her work was not bourgeois – conventional, middle-class, or materialistic – in any way.
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Which of the following was not an associate of Mina Loy?
Conrad Aiken is known for openly criticizing Loy’s poetry. All the others were affiliated with Mina Loy in some way – most through her Greenwich Village ties.
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Which of the following is another collection of poetry by Mina Loy?
In addition to The Lost Lunar Baedeker (1923)and Lunar Baedeker & Time Tables (1958), Loy wrote Songs to Joannes, a collection of frank, experimental love poetry,in 1915. Tender Buttons (1914) is by Gertrude Stein, Nightwood (1936) is by Djuna Barnes, An Atlas of the Difficult World (1990) is by Adrienne Rich, and Crossing the Water (1971) is by Sylvia Plath.
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Who is the author of The Whitsun Weddings?
The Whitsun Weddings (1964) is Philip Larkin’s 8th book, and it contains such well-known poems as the title poem, “MCMXIV,” and “An Arundel Tomb.”
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In what decade was The Whitsun Weddings written?
The Whitsun Weddings was first published in 1964. Philip Larkin was born in 1922 and died in 1985, which rules out a few of the answer choices.
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Which of the following was not written by the author of The Whitsun Weddings?
The Sea and the Mirror is a 1958 poetry collection by W.H. Auden. Jill (1946), High Windows (1974), The Less Deceived (1955), and All What Jazz (1970) are all by the prolific Philip Larkin.
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Which of the following subjects does not appear in The Whitsun Weddings?
A medieval Sussex tomb is the subject of the poem “An Arundel Tomb,” renting a room is the subject of “Mr. Bleaney,” volunteer enlistment and slaughter is the subject of “MCMXIV,” and a train journey is the subject of “The Whitsun Weddings” – all of which are poems included in Larkin’s The Whitsun Weddings. The United Irishmen rebellion is the subject of “Requiem for the Croppies,” (1966) a famous poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
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Who is the author of Birthday Letters?
Birthday Letters (1998)is British poet laureate Ted Hughes’ last collection of poetry, and it’s also one of his most famous.
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The poet’s relationship with which American writer is the subject of Birthday Letters?
In Birthday Letters (1998), Hughes examines the suicide of his first wife, American poet Sylvia Plath. Hughes and Plath were married in 1956, and Plath died in 1963.
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Which of the following is not another work by the author of Birthday Letters?
Ted Hughes wrote The Iron Man (1968), The Hawk in the Rain (1957), Crow (1970), and Winter Pollen (1994). Candles in Babylon is a 1982 collection by the British-born American humanist poet Denise Levertov.
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During what decade was Birthday Letters published?
Knowing that this was Hughes’ last work of poetry, and knowing that he lived from 1930 to 1998, you could have inferred that Birthday Letters was published in the 1990s (1998, to be precise).
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