Writing by the Season - Spring
Writing by the Season - Spring
To celebrate the beginning of spring (well, for us in the northern hemisphere) a quiz on writing related to the season, to Easter, gardens and generally sunshiney stuff!
To celebrate the beginning of spring (well, for us in the northern hemisphere) a quiz on writing related to the season, to Easter, gardens and generally sunshiney stuff!
Which novel by Balzac begins ‘On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road…’?
In which Shakespeare play does spring awaken the cuckoo to mock married men?
Which war poet wrote the moving Spring Offensive?
Who wrote, “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring”?
Which great American playwright wrote The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone?
Which Victorian novelist describes spring as, ‘Summer in the light and winter in the shade’?
Who wrote these words: ‘Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.’
Who said, ‘In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven’?
In which classic children’s novel do Mary, Dickon and the great outdoors help bring Colin to better health?
‘Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.’ Which character is affected by spring?
Who wrote the popular 2008 novel The Forgotten Garden?
Who was “slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…”?
Who has ‘spring fever’ which “when you've got it, you want – oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so”?
When Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud, what spring flowers did he see?
Which Victorian poet wrote Spring Quiet?
Which fairy tale writer wrote these words: “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”
‘Spring is the time of plans and projects’ in which Tolstoy novel?
In which capital city is Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel The Beginning of Spring set?
Which Bronte sister wrote this: “A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Which book by Roddy Doyle deals with the Easter uprising in 1916?