"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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

This is an excerpt from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy – specifically, the famous opening lines of The Inferno. Even if you didn’t recognize these lines, you could have noticed that the work is written in couplets and that it is a canto, both of which are identifying features of The Divine Comedy.

Passage adapted from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, trans. Charles Eliot Norton (1920)

Dante was from Florence, Italy.

Passage adapted from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, trans. Charles Eliot Norton (1920)

Although Dante was born in the 1200s (exact date unknown), The Divine Comedy was begun around 1308 and completed in 1320. Dante died in 1321.

Passage adapted from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, trans. Charles Eliot Norton (1920)