UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Exam Q&A 2024

UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Exam Q&A 2024 Sara Teasdale () - CORRECT ANSWER-Love Songs- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1918 Other works: Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (1907) Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911) Rivers to the Sea (1915) She committed suicide in 1933 Margaret Widdemer () - CORRECT ANSWER-Old Road to Paradise- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1919 Other Works: The Factories with Other Lyrics (1915) The Dark Cavalier (1958) Carl Sandburg () - CORRECT ANSWER-Sandburg won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for poetry and one for his Abraham Lincoln biography. Works: In Reckless Ecstasy (1904) Chicago Poems (1916) Corn Huskers- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1919 Smoke and Steel (1920) The People, Yes (1936) Complete Poems- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1951 Harvest Poems (1950) Honey and Salt (1963) Prose: Abraham Lincoln:The Prairie Years (1926) The American Songbag (1927) Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939) Pulitzer Prize Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1932) The New American Songbag (1950) Edwin Arlington Robinson () - CORRECT ANSWER-Won three Pulitzer Prizes Works: The Torrent and the Night Before (1896) The Children of the Night (1897) Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) The Town Down the River (1910)