This poem’s pessimistic observations include that “We take no note of time / But from its loss,” that “procrastination is the thief of time,” and that “all men think all men mortal but themselves.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this nine-part meditative blank verse poem by Edward Young, which is in part a dialogue with the deistic youth Lorenzo.
ANSWER: Night-Thoughts [or The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality]
[10e] Night-Thoughts was illustrated in the 1790s by this Romantic poet, who also made his own illustrations for his poem “The Tyger” in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
ANSWER: William Blake
[10m] Night-Thoughts asks if Lorenzo still burns for this concept “of life.” A “Philosophical Enquiry” by Edmund Burke associates this concept with greatness and a fearful “negative pain,” unlike a related concept.
ANSWER: the sublime (Burke contrasts the sublime with the beautiful.)