troubadour sessions

In this weeks show we continue the reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, we continue our journey to Portsmouth, we read 4 poems, we continue our journey in Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens and end with Just for fun quiz. TTAMC Quiz answers edition 8: 1 Lord Tennyson's son Hallam served as the governor-general of which country from 1903 - 1904?

A Australia

2 Hermann Karl Hesse was a German Swiss poet, novelist and painter, in which year was he born?

A 1877

3 Esther Phillips is a Barbadian poet, in which year did she become the first poet laureate of Barbados?

A 2018

4 Ivan Drach was an Ukrainian poet, name his poetry collection published in 1962?

A Soniashnyk' (The Sunflower, 1962)

5 William Butler Yeats was one Ireland's greatest writers of the 20th Century, in which year did he die?

A 1939

6 Joy Harjo is a member of which native American Nation?

A Muscogee Nation

7 Which literary office does Joy Harjo hold in the United States of America?

A Poet Laureate

8 Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, is the first line of which Shakespearian Sonnet?

A No 131

9 Perforce am thine, and all that is in me, is the last line from which Shakespearian Sonnet?

A No 133

10 But thy eternal summer shall not fade is the 9th line of which Shakespearian Sonnet?

A No 18

In this weeks show we continue the reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, we continue our journey to Portsmouth, we read 5 poems from the pen of Lord Tennyson, we start a new journey in Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens and end with Just for fun quiz. TTAMC Quiz answers edition 7: 1 Thomas Campbell wrote the poem The River of Life, in which year was he born?

A 1777

2 Where did Thomas Campbell die?

A Boulogne- Sur- Mer

3 Where is Thomas Campbell buried?

A Westminster Abbey

4 Heraclitus is a poem written by William Johnson Cory, born William Johnson in which year did he change his name to Cory?

A 1872

5 Hartley Coleridge is the son of which poet?

A Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6 From whom does Hartley Coleridge take his Christian name?

A David Hartley

7 In which year and which West Yorkshire town was David Hartley born?

A 1705, Halifax

8 In which year did Australian poet Les Murray die?

A 2019

9 Which in which year did Les Murray become an Officer of the Order of Australia?

A 1989

10 In which year was Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō born?

A 1644

In this weeks show we continue the reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, we continue our journey to Portsmouth, continue A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens with the final episode in book one of the trilogy, we read 5 poems and end with the Just for fun quiz. TTAMC Quiz Edition 6

Answers:

1 In The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, who is Monsieur Dafarge?

A The Wine Shop Keeper

2 Who wrote the poem Summer Dawn, that starts Pray but one prayer for me twixt thy closed lips?

A William Morris

3 What were R W Emerson Christian names?

A Ralph, Waldo

4 What was George Eliot's real name?

A Mary Ann Cross

5 This is a spray the Bird clung to, is the first line from which poem by Robert Browning?

A Misconceptions

6 At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, is the first line from which poem by William Wordsworth?

A The Reverie of Poor Susan

7 Song of the emigrants in Bermuda is a poem written by which poet?

A Andrew Marvell

8 Andrew Marvell was born in which village in the East Riding of Yorkshire also called Humberside and East Yorkshire?

A Winestead

9 Which year was Andrew Marvell born?

A 1621

10 Who wrote the poem Duncan Gray?

A Robert Burns

In this weeks show we continue the reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, we continue our journey to Portsmouth, we continue A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens with episode 5, we read poetry and end with the Just for fun quiz. Quiz answers to TTAMC Edition 5. 1 How was old Fernando Pessoa when his father died?

A 5

2 After Fernando Pessoa mother remarried in which country did they go to live?

A South Africa

3 In which year was French poet Paul Éluard born?

A 1895

4 In which year was Canadian poet Rod Anderson born?

A 1935

5 Thomas Archibald Marshall was born in 1938, whereabouts in Canada?

A Niagara Falls, Ontario

6 Janet Kauffman is an American novelist and poet born in 1945, where?

A Lancaster, Pennsylvania

7 Walt Whitman wrote O Captain! My Captain!, whose death is about?

A Abraham Lincoln

8 Which seaside town in Kent, England hosts an annual Dickens Festival?

A Broadstairs

9 Which poetry form is Walt Whitman said to be the father of?

A Free Verse

10 In which year did Carol Ann Duffy become Britain's first female poet laureate?

A 2009

In this weeks show we continue the reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, we continue our journey to Portsmouth and continue A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens with episode 4. 1 Charles G Harper wrote The Road to Portsmouth, in which year was he born?

A 1863

2 Jerry Abershawe was born in which year?

 

A 1773

3 What was Jerry Abershawe's occupation?

Highwayman

4 Jerry Abershawe died in 1795, how did he die?

A Hanged.

5. If I should die, think only this of me, is the first line of the Sonnet The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, what is the last line?

A In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

6 Poet Abraham Cowley was educated at Cambridge University, which college did he attend?

A Trinity College

7 Sir Walter Scott was born in which year?

A 1771

8 What event in 1825 caused Sir Walter Scott financial ruin?

UK banking crisis caused the collapse of his printing concern.

9 Mathew Arnold died from heart failure, what brought this on?

A running to meet a train.

10 Mathew Arnold's father Thomas Arnold was the headmaster of which English public school?

A Rugby.

In this weeks show we continue the reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, we continue our journey to Portsmouth and continue A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens with episode 3. Finally we have this week's quiz. Here are the answers to last weeks: Quiz Edition 3

1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's rose?

A Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare

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2 If I should die, think only this of me?

A

Rupert Brooke, The Soldier

| 3 I wandered lonely as a cloud

A William Wordsworth, The Daffodils

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4 Fair Pledges of a fruitful tree

A Robert Herrick, To Blossoms

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5 Fair daffodils, we weep to see

A

Robert Herrick, To Daffodils

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6 A weary lot is thine, fair maid

A

Sir Walter Scott, The Rover

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7 Beneath these fruit tree boughs that shed

A William Wordsworth, The Green Linnet

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8 When I am dead, my dearest

A

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Song

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9 Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king

A

Thomas Nash, Spring

| 10 when icicles hang by the wall

A William Shakespeare, Winter.

In this week’s show we continue The Road to Portsmouth, the second episode of a Tale of Two Cities, 4 Sonnets from William Shakespeare, two poems from Robert Herrick and the Just for Fun Quiz. Here are the answers to last weeks quiz - TTAMC Edition 2 Answers

1.In which year and city was Fernando Pessoa born?

A.1888 Lisbon

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2.How many novels did Charles Dickens write?

A.15

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3. In Martin Rattler, which country do Martin and Barney find themselves in after escaping from the pirates?

A.Brazil

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4. In which year did Lord Tennyson die?

A.1892

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5. Who was the British Poet Laureate after Lord Tennyson?

A.Alfred Austin |

6. In which year did Percy Shelley die?

A.1822

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7. In which year and in which Sussex town was Percy Shelley born?

1792, Horsham |

8. In which year did John Keats die?

A.1821

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9. In which country did John Keats die?

A.Italy

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10. In which year did Lord Byron die?

A.1824

Nothing added, no music, no applause just William Shakespeare Sonnets read in 7 Volumes, this is Volume 5.

In this week's show we have poetry from Abraham Cowley, John Keats and William Shakespeare, we start the trilogy, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, we continue the reading of William Shakespeare Sonnets and we continue the travelogue The Road to Portsmouth. Answers to last week's quiz:

1 In October 1914 Rupert Brooke took part in the defence of Antwerp, name two of the 4 Sonnets he wrote whilst recovering?

(Peace, Safety, The Dead, The Soldier)

| 2 What was is the date of Rupert Brooke's death?

(23/04/1915)

| 3 Rupert Brooke was buried on the day of his death, where and at what time?

(Skyros, 23:00)

4 William Wordsworth was the British Poet Lauriete from 1843 to his death in 1850 who succeeded him?

(Lord Alfred Tennyson)

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5 Who was the British Poet Laureate before William Wordsworth?

(Robert Southey)

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6 RM Ballentine was a Scottish author who wrote among other books Martin Rattler, what are his Christian names?

(Robert Michael)

| 7 Martin Rattler was published in which year?

(1858)

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8 Where did RM Ballentine die? 

(Italy)

| 9 Who wrote the Raffles books?

(EW Hornung)

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10 Who wrote the poem O Captain! My Captain?

(Walt Whitman)

A classic story from the pen of RM Ballantyne, first published in 1858, serialised. Robert Michael Ballantyne was born in Edinburgh in 1825 and died in Rome in 1894. Our Facebook Page search @MoncktonCove