The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 J S Bach Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Favourites from Monckton Cove Quiz Answers Week 10: 1 Thomas Campbell wrote the poem The River of Life, in which year was he born?

A 1777

2 Where did Thomas Campbell die?

A Boulogne- Sur- Mer

3 Where is Thomas Campbell buried?

A Westminster Abbey

4 In which year did poet William Johnson he change his name to William Johnson Cory?

A 1872

5 Hartley Coleridge is the son of which poet?

A Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6 From whom does Hartley Coleridge take his Christian name?

A David Hartley

7 In which year and which West Yorkshire town was David Hartley born?

A 1705, Halifax

8 In which year did Australian poet Les Murray die?

A 2019

9 In which year did Les Murray become an Officer of the Order of Australia?

A 1989

10 Mathew Arnold's father Thomas Arnold was the headmaster of which English public school?

A Rugby.

1. If I should die, think only this of me, is the first line of the Sonnet The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, what is the last line?

A In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

12 Poet Abraham Cowley was educated at Cambridge University, which college did he attend?

A Trinity College

13 Sir Walter Scott was born in which year?

A 1771

14 What event in 1825 cause Sir Walter Scott financial ruin?

UK banking crisis caused the collapse of his printing concern.

15 Mathew Arnold died from heart failure, what brought this on?

A running to meet a train.