Leaves of Grass - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

A letter mailed from Concord, Massachusetts describes this “wonderful gift” of a book as the “most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this “fortifying and encouraging” book extolled in a letter that warmly remarks, “I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start.”

ANSWER: Leaves of Grass

[10e] That letter was by this transcendentalist, whose 1844 essay “The Poet” moved Whitman to write Leaves of Grass with its call to action for a new poetic genius in America. This author wrote the essay “Self-Reliance.”

ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson

[10m] In his reply to Emerson, Whitman refers to him as a “dear friend” and by this title. A set of three passionate letters by Emily Dickinson are enigmatically addressed to an anonymous figure with this title.

ANSWER: Master [accept Master letters]

<RK, American 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	10.00	33%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
McDouble West-Carleton	Waterloo	0	0	10	10
Ottawa A	Ottawa C	0	0	0	0
Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	Ottawa B	0	10	10	20
I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	SGV Capital	0	10	10	20
Duke	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
NC State	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Emory A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Georgia A	0	10	10	20
Georgia B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Birmingham	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Durham	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Oxford	Warwick	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Indiana	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Purdue A	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Kenyon B	Team 2	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Kenyon A	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Zen and the Art of Buzzing	Boston College	0	0	0	0
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Farrellmagnetism	0	10	0	10
Arizona State	MSU A and Friend	0	10	0	10
Cornell R	RIT	10	10	10	30
Cornell MATLAB	Syracuse+Rochester	10	10	10	30
Texas B	HCC	0	0	0	0
TAMU	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas C	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	SIUE	0	10	0	10
WUSTL H2O	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	WUSTL XYZ	10	10	10	30