Answer the following about poems collected in a late Colonial-era commonplace book by Milcah Martha Moore, for 10 points each.
[10e] Although the majority of the poems are by female poets in Moore’s circle, like Hannah Griffitts, the book contains two epitaphs written by this author of Poor Richard’s Almanac.
ANSWER: Benjamin Franklin
[10h] The second-most collected author in Moore’s book is a poet with this first name and the surname Wright. A different author with this first name wrote the 1791 seduction novel Charlotte Temple.
ANSWER: Susanna [accept Susanna Wright; accept Susanna Rowson or Susanna Haswell]
[10m] The book includes a poem in this genre dedicated to newlyweds with the initials E.D. and F.B. Variations of the phrase “the woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring” appear in an Edmund Spenser poem titled for this Greek-derived genre that is dedicated to brides.
ANSWER: epithalamium [or epithalamion; or epithalamia; prompt on bridal song; reject “prothalamion”]
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