"S" in Literature by HensleyB

"The Rivals," whose character Mrs. Malaprop is the origin of the term malapropism, is a play written by what playwright and poet?

The sonnet sequence "Astrophel and Stella" is the work of which English poet who also wrote "An Apology for Poetry"?

Give the term that names a 36-line poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines each followed by a three-line envoi and which features the repetition of key words from the first stanza.

The life of poet A. E. Housman is central to the play "The Invention of Love," a work of which playwright?

Identify the poem subtitled "A Winter Idyl" that is the source of the lines below.

Shut in from all the world without,
We sat the clean-winged hearth about,
Content to let the north-wind roar
In baffled rage at pane and door

Which poet penned these lines in his "Pullman Porter" in which he tells of a conversation between himself and a train porter?

“When I was quite a little boy I used to savour them with joy;
And now my daughter, aged three,
Can tell the tale of Sam McGee;
While Tom, my son, that’s only two,
Has heard the yarn of Dan McGrew ....
Don’t think your stuff I’m not applaudin’ —
My taste is Eliot and Auden.”

What name is shared by two female Roman poets, the earlier of the two being the only woman poet of Ancient Rome whose poetry survives today in the form of six love poems addressed to Cerinthus?

Identify the author of the lines below.

So between them love did shine
That the Turtle saw his right
Flaming in the Phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.

Condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" is a work of which author who also wrote of a mass epidemic of blindness in another novel?

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, who has been sentenced to ten years of hard labor for espionage, is the protagonist of a novel by what author?

What namesake and protagonist of an epic poem becomes king of the Mali Empire after defeating the sorcerer king Sosso?

Lorraine Hansberry wrote only two plays that were ever staged-- "A Raisin in the Sun" and which other? Aside from the titular writer, its other characters include his wife Iris, the activist Alton Scales, the prostitute Gloria, and the corrupt politician Wally O’Hara.