General Knowledge Questions
Questions on Keats OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen questions submitted is awarded this week to Dr. H. Clement Notcutt, Stellenbosch, South Africa, for the following - I. In which poems are the following persons alluded to by name.: Boccaccio, Chapman, Boileau 2. "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ": What particular " thing- of beauty " had Keats in mind when he wrote this ?
3. In what poems do the following characters appear : Clymene, Apollonius, Bertha ?
4.. To whom is Keats alluding in the following expressions ? (i) " The wrong'd Libertas " ; (ii) , He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake " (iii) " whose steadfastness would never take, A meaner sound than Raphael's whispering."
5. What associations-have the following places with the life of Keats : Enfield, Teignmouth, Lutworth ? 6. Which works of Keats were left unfinished ?
7. Where in Keats's pins do we meet with (I) a nymph changed to a butterfly ; (ii) an old man made young ; (iii) a snake changed to a woman ? 8. Who wrote the criticism of Endymion in the Quarterly Review
9. Which poems have their scene laid in Florence, Corinth, Latmos ?
10. What two girls named Fanny counted for a great deal in the life-of Keats ?
11. To whom ;were Keats's three volumes dedicated-? 12. Of what idea is did, Keats say : " that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know " ? 13. Where s Keats buried, and what words were inscribed on his gravestone- at- his own request ?
Answers will -be found-on page Ali.
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