Famous Poets MCQs 2026

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  1. Q1 hard

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

    1. A Ferdowsi
    2. B Omar Khayyam
    3. C Rumi
    4. D Hafez
    💡 Explanation:

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

  2. Q2 hard

    Who is the Persian poet of "The Divan"

    1. A Rumi
    2. B Omar Khayyam
    3. C Hafez
    4. D Ferdowsi
    💡 Explanation:

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

  3. Q3 easy

    Who is known as the "Bard of Avon"

    1. A John Milton
    2. B Geoffrey Chaucer
    3. C Ben Jonson
    4. D William Shakespeare
    💡 Explanation:

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

  4. Q4 hard

    Who wrote "Dover Beach"

    1. A Matthew Arnold
    2. B Alfred Lord Tennyson
    3. C Robert Browning
    4. D Gerard Manley Hopkins
    💡 Explanation:

    Matthew Arnold wrote "Dover Beach" in 1867.

  5. Q5 easy

    Who wrote "The Road Not Taken"

    1. A Robert Frost
    2. B Emily Dickinson
    3. C Walt Whitman
    4. D Langston Hughes
    💡 Explanation:

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

  6. Q6 medium

    Who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"

    1. A John Keats
    2. B Percy Bysshe Shelley
    3. C William Wordsworth
    4. D Lord Byron
    💡 Explanation:

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

  7. Q7 hard

    Who is the author of "The Waste Land"

    1. A W.B. Yeats
    2. B Ezra Pound
    3. C T.S. Eliot
    4. D Robert Frost
    💡 Explanation:

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

  8. Q8 medium

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

    1. A William Blake
    2. B William Wordsworth
    3. C Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    4. D John Keats
    💡 Explanation:

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

  9. Q9 medium

    Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

    1. A William Wordsworth
    2. B William Blake
    3. C Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    4. D John Keats
    💡 Explanation:

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

  10. Q10 easy

    Who wrote "The Raven"

    1. A Edgar Allan Poe
    2. B Emily Dickinson
    3. C Walt Whitman
    4. D Robert Frost
    💡 Explanation:

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