GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of American Poetry After 1925
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Example Question #21 : Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
The author of Meditations in an Emergency was considered an important founder of which literary group?
The Bloomsbury Group
The Inklings
The Algonquin Round Table
The New York School
The Factory
The New York School
Along with Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara was an important member of the New York School and contributed greatly to its surrealist, abstract expressionist, and avant-garde aesthetic.
Meditations in an Emergency was published in 1957.
Example Question #22 : Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
Which of the following is not a title of a poem in the collection Meditations in an Emergency?
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
To the Harbormaster
On Rachmaninoff's Birthday
Romanze, or The Music Students
For Grace, After a Party
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a 1917 poem by Wallace Stevens.
All of the other answer choices were published in Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency (1957).
Example Question #23 : Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
Who is the author of Helen in Egypt?
Amy Lowell
Ezra Pound
H.D.
Marianne Moore
Robert Lowell
H.D.
This is the female Imagist poet and prose writer H.D (H.D was the pen name of Hilda Doolittle). H.D was born in 1886, and was active in publishing from 1916 until her death in 1961.
Ezra Pound wrote Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920), Amy Lowell (another American Imagist poet) wrote A Dome of Many Coloured Glass (1912), Robert Lowell wrote the Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951), and Marianne Moore wrote Nevertheless (1944).
Helen in Egypt (1961) was H.D's last book of poetry.
Example Question #24 : Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
What is another name of the author of Helen in Egypt?
D.H. Lawrence
Hilda Doolittle
Donald Hughes
Henry Douglas
Henrietta Davenport
Hilda Doolittle
H.D. is the pen name of Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961).
Henry Douglas, Henrietta Davenport, and Donald Hughes were not notable American poets at all, but were provided here as alternative names with the initials H.D. The novelist and poet D.H. Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers (1913).
Helen in Egypt (1961) was H.D's last book of poetry.
Example Question #41 : Contexts Of American Poetry
Which of the following is the title of another collection by the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Mad Girl’s Love Song
An Octopus
Questions of Travel
Marriage
Tulips
Questions of Travel
Published in 1965, Questions of Travel reflects Bishop’s residence in Brazil and journeys in South America. The rest of the titles are individual poems by Sylvia Plath and Marianne Moore.
Example Question #42 : Contexts Of American Poetry
Who is the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Elizabeth Bishop
Amy Lowell
Sylvia Plath
Frank O’Hara
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Bishop
Inspired by a newspaper misprint, “The Man-Moth” (1946) is a poem by the U.S. Poet Laureate Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Sylvia's Lovers (1863), Sylvia Plath wrote The Bell Jar (1963), Amy Lowell wrote Ballads for Sale (1927), and Frank O’Hara wrote Oranges: 12 pastorals (1953).
Example Question #43 : Contexts Of American Poetry
Which of the following is the title of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poems by the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Last Dawn
Brotherhood
Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring
As One Listens to the Rain
Between Going and Coming
Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring
Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring is Bishop’s 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. The rest are the titles of individual poems by Octavio Paz.
Example Question #44 : Contexts Of American Poetry
Which of the following poets was a major influence on the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Marianne Moore
Mary Dudley
Marilyn Robinson
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore, whom Bishop met as a student at Vassar, was a mentor and friend to Bishop. Critics observe distinct similarities in the two poets’ oeuvres.
Mary Shelley was a 19th-century novelist, Mary Wollstonecraft was a 19th-century essayist and seminal feminist thinker, Marilyn Robinson is a 20th-century novelist, and Mary Dudley was not a writer, but was rather a confidante of Queen Elizabeth I.
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