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530. Who wrote "Poems of Cabin and Field "? 531. What English man of letters married a titled woman?

532. Who said:

Full many a gem, of purest ray serene,

The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

533. Who has been called "the most beloved of English writers "?

534. What English poet died insane?

535. In whose honor were the following lines written:

Pilgrims, whose wandering feet have pressed

The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand,

Or trod the piled leaves of the West,

My own green forest land.

All ask the cottage of his birth,

Gaze on the scenes he loved and sung,

And gather feelings not of earth,

His fields and streams among.

536. What poet has been termed "the father of epigram"?

537. Who said:

I remember, I remember,

The fir-trees dark and high;

I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:

It was a childish ignorance,

But now 't is little joy

To know I'm further off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.

538. Of what poet was it said: "He was of imagination all compact"?

539. Name America's two greatest writers of Colonial times.

540. Who wrote the following lines:

There's a wonderful country, the Kingdom of If,

And it lies in the Valley of Dreams.

'Neath the bluest of skies, where the sun never dies;
It has gold for its oceans and streams.

There's never a storm and there's never a cloud,
And there's never a grief nor a woe,

And there's never a heart that in sorrow is bowed,
By the banks where the golden streams flow.

541. Who wrote "The Last of the Mohicans"? 542. What famous American journalist wrote "Prue and I"?

543. Who was the author of "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and and "Tom Brown at Ox

ford"?

544. For what is Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, noted?

545. Who wrote "The Little Lame Prince"? 546. Who wrote "The House of the Wolf "? 547. Who said: "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their effort to obtain it "?

548. Who said, "Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me "?

549. What American writer has been spoken of as "the first ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old "?

550. What poet declared, "I could not write upon anything, without some personal experience and foundation"?

551. Which is the most popular of all of Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyric poems?

552. What American poet suffered a paralytic stroke, which resulted in his death, immediately after delivering an oration on the occasion of the unveiling of a statue of the Italian patriot, Mazzini, in Central Park, New York City?

553. Name six prominent men of letters who were residents of Concord, Massachu

setts.

554. What poet wrote his masterpiece at eighteen years of age?

555. Of whom was it said, "With the gift of song, he would have been the greatest of epic poets since Homer "?

556. Who was America's greatest colored poet? 557. Who was America's greatest colored educator?

558. Who wrote " Concord Days"?

559. Who said, “Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions"?

560. Who wrote the celebrated "Fable for

Critics"?

561. What and where is King's Chapel?

562. Who said:

Nor mine the seer-like power to show
The secrets of the heart and mind;
To drop the plummet-line below
Our common world of joy or woe,

A more intense despair or brighter hope to find.

563. Who wrote "Idylls of the King"? 564. Who said of Walter Hines Page, the editor and diplomat: "Walter Page can write a letter declining a contribution with thanks, and word it so sweetly that the recipient can take it to a bank and raise money on it "?

565. Who wrote "The Judgment House "? 566. What Scotch poet and novelist was also a preacher?

567. Who wrote the following lines:

And again I heard the wood-dove coo;

And the scent of the woodland made me sad;
For the two reminded my heart of you,
When you were a girl and I was a lad.

568. Of whom did Bliss Perry say: "He is the first professional man of letters to be

come President of the United States "? 569. Who was called "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia"?

570. Who wrote "Rabbi Ben Ezra "?

571. Who said, "The only shots fired that are heard 'round the world' are fired by literary men"?

572. Who said of her illustrious son:

In these words which my son has written is contained his whole gospel:

"The world is so full of a number of things,

I am sure we should all be as happy as kings."

573. Who said, "It costs no more to live in the upper story of life where the air is purer,

the scenery fairer, the vision keener, and the joys more constant "?

574. Who was termed "the most fastidious of American critics"?

575. Who was the author of "Yesterdays with Authors"?

576. What and where was Stone House?

577. Who wrote the following stanza, and of whom :

Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days-

None knew thee but to love thee,

Nor named thee but to praise.

578. Who were termed " the Damon and Pythias of American poets"?

579. Where do we hear of Lincoln's Inn Hall? 580. What American woman of letters received the degree of Doctor of Literature from Bowdoin College?

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