This poet declared "Little War" on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, routinely accusing him of plagiarism in poems like “Midnight Mass of the Dying Year,” although Longfellow brushed it off. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet and editor, who might have stirred up beef with Longfellow because of the lack of financial success he had with poems like “The Raven.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10h] After Poe died, Longfellow suggested his epitaph should come from a Poe poem addressed to a girl with this name. In an epic poem by a later author, "The higher gods forgot" and "the lower gods berate" a Chicago woman with this name.
ANSWER: Annie [or "For Annie"; or Annie Allen (by Gwendolyn Brooks); accept “The Anniad”; reject any other names, including Annabel]
[10m] The line “and the fever called ‘Living’ / is conquered at last!” from “For Annie” contradicts the optimism of this Longfellow poem, whose speaker, the “Heart of a Young Man,” exalts the title concept as “real” and “earnest.”
ANSWER: “A Psalm of Life”
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