The speaker calls the title animal the "wise emblem of our politic world" curled in "thine own self" in this author's poem "The Snail." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet who described another insect getting drunk every night while on a "well-filléd oaten beard" in "The Grasshopper," a poem dedicated to his "Noble Friend" Charles Cotton.
ANSWER: Richard Lovelace
[10m] This author wrote, "I see the envious caterpillar sit / On the fair blossom of each growing wit" in a poem commending Richard Lovelace. A poem by this author describes an "industrious bee" dwelling where thoughts become "green…in a green shade."
ANSWER: Andrew Marvell (the poems are "To His Noble Friend, Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems" and "The Garden.")
[10e] This Andrew Marvell poem, which describes how "worms shall try / That long-preserved virginity," opens by telling the addressee, "Had we but world enough and time."
ANSWER: "To His Coy Mistress"
<Darren Petrosino, British Literature>