Quiz: How much of a poetry buff are you?

In honour of National Poetry Day, take our quiz to test your knowledge of the nation's poets.

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On Oct 8, 2015
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Which poet wrote: "My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,"

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Who begins their poem with the line "They flee from me that sometime did me seek"?

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Which poet wrote a version of the Pied Piper?

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Which war poet wrote 'August 1914'?

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Which poet used to work in the features department at the BBC?

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Who wrote the poem 'To an Athlete Dying Young'?

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Who once said: "I think I'm just a normal bloke writing poems"

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The lines "The mind of Man is fram'd even like the breath/
And harmony of music" come from which poem?

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Which poet was described as "mad, bad and dangerous to know"?

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Who wrote, in memory of WB Yeats, "Earth, receive an honoured guest:
William Yeats is laid to rest.
Let the Irish vessel lie"

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"Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests./I’ll dig with it." Who wrote these lines?

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Who wrote the poem 'To Mr S.T. Coleridge'?

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From which poem do the lines "Even as the sun with purple-colour'd face/Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn" come from?

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