Famous Poets MCQs 2026

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  1. Q1hard

    Who is the author of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"

    1. AFerdowsi
    2. BOmar Khayyam
    3. CRumi
    4. DHafez
    💡 Explanation:

    Omar Khayyam is the author of the "Rubaiyat," a collection of Persian quatrains.

  2. Q2hard

    Who is the Persian poet of "The Divan"

    1. ARumi
    2. BOmar Khayyam
    3. CHafez
    4. DFerdowsi
    💡 Explanation:

    Hafez is famous for his "Divan," a collection of Persian lyric poetry.

  3. Q3easy

    Who is known as the "Bard of Avon"

    1. AJohn Milton
    2. BGeoffrey Chaucer
    3. CBen Jonson
    4. DWilliam Shakespeare
    💡 Explanation:

    William Shakespeare is known as the "Bard of Avon".

  4. Q4hard

    Who wrote "Dover Beach"

    1. AMatthew Arnold
    2. BAlfred Lord Tennyson
    3. CRobert Browning
    4. DGerard Manley Hopkins
    💡 Explanation:

    Matthew Arnold wrote "Dover Beach" in 1867.

  5. Q5easy

    Who wrote "The Road Not Taken"

    1. ARobert Frost
    2. BEmily Dickinson
    3. CWalt Whitman
    4. DLangston Hughes
    💡 Explanation:

    Robert Frost wrote "The Road Not Taken" in 1916.

  6. Q6medium

    Who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"

    1. AJohn Keats
    2. BPercy Bysshe Shelley
    3. CWilliam Wordsworth
    4. DLord Byron
    💡 Explanation:

    John Keats wrote "Ode to a Nightingale" in 1819.

  7. Q7hard

    Who is the author of "The Waste Land"

    1. AW.B. Yeats
    2. BEzra Pound
    3. CT.S. Eliot
    4. DRobert Frost
    💡 Explanation:

    T.S. Eliot wrote "The Waste Land" in 1922, a landmark modernist poem.

  8. Q8medium

    Who wrote "Daffodils" (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)

    1. AWilliam Blake
    2. BWilliam Wordsworth
    3. CSamuel Taylor Coleridge
    4. DJohn Keats
    💡 Explanation:

    William Wordsworth wrote "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1807.

  9. Q9medium

    Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

    1. AWilliam Wordsworth
    2. BWilliam Blake
    3. CSamuel Taylor Coleridge
    4. DJohn Keats
    💡 Explanation:

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in 1798.

  10. Q10easy

    Who wrote "The Raven"

    1. AEdgar Allan Poe
    2. BEmily Dickinson
    3. CWalt Whitman
    4. DRobert Frost
    💡 Explanation:

    Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" in 1845, a narrative poem about a mysterious raven.