Question 1
Which American poet was married to British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes?
- Sylvia Plath
- Anne Sexton
- Adrienne Rich
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Sylvia Plath
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Question 2
Which Victorian poet was the husband of the writer of Sonnets from the Portuguese?
- Christina Rossetti
- Robert Browning
- Matthew Arnold
- Alfred Tennyson
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Robert Browning
Question 3
Which Romantic poet was married to the author of Frankenstein?
- William Wordsworth
- John Keats
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Lord Byron
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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