CSET Practice Test On Poetry and Why Some People Pass and Some Do Not

2. Lived between 1819 and 1892. Considered one of America’s best poets. He is said to have invented contemporary American literature as a genre. He abandoned the rhythmic and metrical structures of European poetry for an expansionist freestyle verse, which delivered his view that America was destined to reinvent the world as emancipator and liberator of the human spirit. His most famous work is Leaves of Grass.

A. Robert Hayden

B. Walt Whitman

C. Edward Lear

D. Margaret Atwood

3. Lived between 1807 and 1882. An American poet and one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. Famous poems include: The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, and Evangeline.

A. T.S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Emily Dickinson

4. Lived between 1878 and 1967. He was a great voice of the American industrial age, a “people’s poet” who combined patriotism with social activism. His most famous poem is Chicago.

A. Dante

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Dylan Thomas

D. A.E. Housman