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Page 1: Famous Poets Crossword Puzzle

Famous Poets Crossword Puzzle

By Adele Kenny

Answer with the Poets’ Last names

Page 2: Famous Poets Crossword Puzzle

Across 1. Verlaine’s Lover 3. Harlem Renaissance Poet 5. "Divine Comedy" Author 7. Creator of Sprung Rhythm 11. His Lilacs Last in the Dooryard

Bloomed 12. Poet Who Wrote of King Arthur 15. His Wife Authored Frankenstein 16. The Great Bard from Stratford-

Upon-Avon 18. Poet Who Didn't Capitalize 20. Author of Howl 21. Recluse from Amherst 23. Pre-Raphaelite Poet & Painter,

Christina's Brother 25. His Daffy Duck Went to Hollywood 27. Friend Who Published Gerard

Manley Hopkins’s Works 30. Ice Crystals Poet Who Wrote "The

Road Not Taken" 31. New Jersey Doctor Who

Immortalized Plums 32. Poet Whose First Name Rhymes

with "Rachel" 34. Like Anne Sexton, This

Confessional Poet Also Committed Suicide

35. 2010-2011 US Poet Laureate 38. English Poet, Painter, & Printmaker 41. Children's Poet Who Wrote

"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" 43. Poet Elizabeth Who Wrote "Visits to

St. Elizabeth's" 44. Author of "Musée Des Beaux Arts" 45. British Poet & Novelist with A

"Royal" First Name 46. Irish Nobel Laureate 48. Poet Who Wore A Tricorn Hat 51. Haiku Originator (Matsuo) 52. British Poet and Soldier (Wilfred)

Who Wrote About War 53. American Humorous Poet (Ogden) 54. Irish Poet and Novelist Who Wrote

Ulysses

Down 2. Wrote to His Coy Mistress 4. British Poet Opposite of Northey 6. Author of "Evangeline" Who Wasn't

a Shortfellow 8. Russian Poet & Author of Dr. Zhivago 9. "Kubla Khan" Author 10. Spoon River Anthology Author 13. Russian Poet Anna Who Taught

Herself to Live Simply 14. Lived at Dove Cottage 17. Did he dare to eat a peach? 18. "Jabberwocky" Author 19. "Sandy" Poet Who Wrote "Sandhill

People" 21. Last Name of Poet Known as H. D. 22. Poet Sara Whose Last Name Is Like

Earl Grey or English Breakfast 24. Poet Who Wrote a Scrolled “On the

Road” 26. Suicide Who Wrote "The Bridge" 28. Poet Who Wrote "Trees" 29. 1990 Nobel Laureate Born in

Mexico City 33. Poet Who Looked at a Blackbird

Thirteen Ways 35. The Poem "Renascence" Won Edna

Early Fame 36. Chilean Poet (Pablo) 37. Lady Caroline Lamb's Lover 38. His Love Was Like a Red, Red Rose 39. Welsh Poet from Swansea Who

Wrote of His Craft or Sullen Art 40. Un-Tame Author (Oscar) of "The

Ballad of Reading Gaol" 42. Grecian Urn Poet 43. Author of "We Real Cool" 47. Imagist Who Wrote "In a Station of

the Metro" 49. Poet Who Wrote That No Man Is An

Island 50. He Wrote About a Raven

Page 3: Famous Poets Crossword Puzzle

Answer Key [Poets’ First Names Appear in Brackets] Across

1. Rimbaud [Arthur]

3. Hughes [Langston]

5. Alighieri [Dante]

7. Hopkins [Gerard Manley]

11. Whitman [Walt]

12. Tennyson [Lord, Alfred]

15. Shelley [Percy Bysshe]

16. Shakespeare [William]

18. Cummings [e.e.]

20. Ginsberg [Allen]

21. Dickinson [Emily]

23. Rossetti [Dante Gabriel]

25. Ashbery [John]

27. Bridges [Robert]

30. Frost [Robert]

31. Williams [William Carlos]

32. Lindsay [Vachel]

34. Plath [Sylvia]

35. Merwin [W. S.]

38. Blake [William Blake]

41. Field [Eugene]

43. Bishop [Elizabeth]

44. Auden [W.H.]

45. Amis [Kingsley]

46. Yeats [William Butler]

48. Moore [Marianne]

51. Basho [Matsuo]

52. Owen [Wilfred]

53. Nash [Ogden]

54. Joyce [James]

Down

2. Marvell [Andrew]

4. Southey [Robert]

6. Longfellow [Henry Wadsworth]

8. Pasternak [Boris]

9. Coleridge [Samuel Taylor]

10. Masters [Edgar Lee]

13. Akhmatova [Anna]

14. Wordsworth [William]

17. Eliot [T. S.]

18. Carroll [Lewis]

19. Sandburg [Carl]

21. Doolittle [Hilda]

22. Teasdale [Sara]

24. Kerouac [Jack]

26. Crane [Hart]

28. Kilmer [Joyce]

29. Paz [Octavio]

33. Stevens [Wallace]

35. Millay [Edna St. Vincent]

36. Neruda [Pablo]

37. Byron [George Gordon, Lord]

38. Burns [Robert]

39. Thomas [Dylan]

40. Wilde [Oscar]

42. Keats [John]

43. Brooks [Gwendolyn]

47. Pound [Ezra]

49. Donne [John]

50. Poe [Edgar Allan]


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