Answers to the Christmas quiz…

1
a) Shelley
b) Keats
c) Wordsworth
d) Coleridge
e) Byron
2
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c) Keats – he wrote part of Endymion while staying at Magdalen Hall in 1817.
d) Byron
e) Shelley – in University College
3
a) Shelley – his first wife, Harriet Westbrook
b) Coleridge
c) Byron – Annabella Milbanke, daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke of Seaham. The two were married for little more than a year before separating amid scandalous rumours,
d) Wordsworth
e) Keats
4
a) Byron
b) Wordsworth
c) Coleridge
d) Keats
e) Shelley
5
a) Byron – in Rowing with the Wind (1988)
b) Keats – in Bright Star (2009)
c) Shelley – in Gothic (1986)
d) Wordsworth – in Pandaemonium (2000)
e) Coleridge – in Pandaemonium
6
a) Keats
b) Byron – a legitimate daughter (Ada) with his wife, and an illegitimate daughter (Allegra) with Claire Clairmont. There were also rumours he had fathered his half-sister Augusta’s child.
c) Coleridge – Hartley, Derwent, Berkeley, and Sara
d) Wordsworth. His illegitimate daughter was Caroline, the child of his French lover Annette Vallon.
e) Shelley – two with Harriet, and four with Mary Shelley. Only one of Mary’s children survived beyond the age of five.
7
d) Shelley and Byron – the poem is by Shelley. Keats and Byron never met.
8
a) Keats
b) Byron
c) Shelley
d) Coleridge
e) Wordsworth
9
a) Shelley
b) Keats
c) Coleridge
d) Wordsworth
e) Byron
10
a) Byron
b) Coleridge
c) Shelley
d) Keats
e) Wordsworth
11
a) Byron – at Missolonghi in 1824, where he had gone to support the Greek struggle for independence. It’s almost certain that his doctors hastened his death by bleeding him.
b) Shelley – in Italy in 1822, after he insisted on setting out in his boat the Don Juan, despite warnings that bad weather was coming. His body was not found for ten days, by which time he was recognisable only by his clothes and the book he carried.
c) Coleridge – on 25th July 1834, at the Highgate home of his doctor, James Gillman, where he had lived for the previous 18 years.
d) Keats – in 1821, in his lodgings by the Spanish Steps in Rome.
e) Wordsworth, at exactly 12 noon on April 23rd 1850. The cuckoo clock was striking.
12
a) Keats – a review of Endymion by John Wilson Croker in The Quarterly Review, April 1818
b) Byron – a review of Hours of Idleness by Henry Brougham in The Edinburgh Review, January 1808. This denunciation provoked Byron to issue his satirical diatribe, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
c) Coleridge – from the Blackwood’s review of the ‘Lake School of poetry’, referring to the ‘Ancient Mariner’, October 1819.
d) Wordsworth – it’s the beginning of a much-quoted review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review, 1814
e) Shelley – review of Queen Mab in The London Literary Gazette, May 1821.
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a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Byron
d) Coleridge
e) Wordsworth
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a) Keats
b) Byron
c) Shelley
d) Coleridge
e) Wordsworth