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One-Eye

https://global.oup.com/academic/online/library/quiz/

1. Which couple chose their wedding date because it is James Joyce's Bloomsday

Answer = Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

2. Which literary movement rose to prominence in the 1950s and was categorized by “distinctive blending of comic exuberance and prophetic aspirations”?

Answer = The Beat Generation

3. Who are the most quoted male and female poets in the OED?

Answer = William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4. Which 17th century Irish writer had his poetry re-evaluated in the 1960s?

Answer = Jonathan Swift ... (not 100% sure of this)

5. What time of his life was W. H. Auden's celebrated poem "Spain" (1937) inspired by?

Answer = His brief period of service in the Spanish Civil War

chloeadkins

I can confirm Jonathan Swift is correct - from HERE
"One thing readers have to be aware of is old-fashioned criticism: before the second half of the 20th century, disparaging and dismissive judgments were often made about Anglo-Irish verse written before 1800. Tastes changed in the 1960s, however: Swift scholars began a reevaluation of his poetry, which led to interest in that of his Irish contemporaries, and the political turmoil in Northern Ireland stimulated critical inquiry into “Irish” writing as a whole."