This author assured the title addressees, “The whole world shares your tears / Some for two nights or one / And some for all their years” in his poem “All You Who Sleep Tonight.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author, who wrote about Lata Mehra’s pressure to marry based on her mother’s wishes in his enormous novel A Suitable Boy.
ANSWER: Vikram Seth (“sate”)
[10e] The contents page of A Suitable Boy is written in these poetic stanzas, which consist of two lines.
ANSWER: couplets
[10h] Poetry is also incorporated into Seth’s debut novel The Golden Gate, whose male protagonist has this full name. In an earlier song, a historical figure with this full name “has gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord.”
ANSWER: John Brown [prompt on partial answer]
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