John Milton - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

A form of free verse named for the “neo-” sort of this poet’s “syllables” was used in the long poem The Testament of Beauty. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this poet, whose “prosody” is studied in a Robert Bridges book that examines his use of unusual metric choices and stresses in lines like “No light; but rather darkness visible.”

ANSWER: John Milton

[10h] Bridges demonstrates Milton’s use of “supernumerary syllables” that disobey normal scansion rules with this four-word phrase that opens Book I of Paradise Lost.

ANSWER: “of man’s first disobedience”

[10e] Chapter II of Milton’s Prosody examines the “accentual verse” in Milton’s closet drama about this Biblical character, an Israelite judge who is betrayed by his lover Delilah.

ANSWER: Samson [accept Samson Agonistes]

<HG, British Literature>

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Waterloo	McDouble West-Carleton	0	10	10
Ottawa C	Ottawa A	0	10	10
Ottawa B	Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	10	10	20
Auxiliary CLU	SGV Capital	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Duke	0	10	10
Zen and the Art of Buzzing	Boston College	0	10	10
Farrellmagnetism	Ganon Evans Fan Club	10	10	20
MSU A and Friend	Arizona State	0	10	10
RIT	Cornell MATLAB	10	10	20
James Madison A	South Carolina A	0	10	10
North Carolina A	NC State	0	10	10
South Carolina B	James Madison B	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Emory A	10	10	20
Georgia B	Georgia A	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Tennesee A	10	10	20
Warwick	Birmingham	0	10	10
Oxford	Cambridge B	0	10	10
Durham	Bristol	0	10	10
Imperial A	Edinburgh	0	10	10
Imperial B	Cambridge A	0	10	10
Cornell R	Syracuse+Rochester	0	10	10
HCC	Texas B	0	10	10
TAMU	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	0	0	0
Texas C	Texas A	0	10	10
SIUE	Missouri A	10	10	20
WUSTL XYZ	Squidward Community College	10	10	20
WUSTL H2O	Missouri B	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	20
Chicago A	Purdue A	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Illinois A	0	10	10
Indiana	Illinois B	0	10	10
Purdue B	Notre Dame B	0	10	10
Chicago B	Vanderbilt	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins	George Washington B	0	10	10
Georgetown	Maryland A	0	10	10
George Washington A	Maryland B	0	10	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	20
Kenyon A	Ohio State A	0	10	10
Kenyon B	Ohio State B	0	10	10