Browning - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In a review of Prufrock and Other Observations, Ezra Pound claimed, “The most interesting poems in Victorian English are” those found in Men and Women, a collection by an author with this surname. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this surname of an author who is told, “Hang it all…there can be but the one ‘Sordello’” in The Cantos. An author with this surname wrote about doing an action as men “strive for right” and “turn from praise.”

ANSWER: Browning [accept Robert Browning or Elizabeth Barrett Browning] (The poem is “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.)

[10e] Along with ballads, Pound translated poems in this form by Guido Cavalcanti. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a collection titled for poems in this 14-line form “from the Portuguese.”

ANSWER: sonnets [accept Sonnets from the Portuguese or the Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti]

[10h] A Pound poem about a person with this profession ends, “Show us there’s chance at least of winning through.” Robert Browning wrote, “But do not let us quarrel any more” to open a poem about a person with this profession.

ANSWER: artist [or painter] (The poems are “To Whistler, American” and “Andrea del Sarto.”)

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	15.00	100%	30%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	17.14	86%	43%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	20.00	100%	70%	30%

Data


stanford M	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford L	10	10	10	30
Amherst A	Yale B	10	10	0	20
Boston University A	Williams A	0	10	0	10
A Brandeis Supreme	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
BU B	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Brandeises Brew	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Tufts B	10	10	0	20
Diamond Brandeis	Clark A	0	10	0	10
MIT	Harvard A	10	10	10	30
Carabrandeis	Northeastern A	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Yale C	0	10	10	20
Tennesse A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Emory B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Auburn C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Tennesse B	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Bard A	Penn State A	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins B	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Penn B	10	10	10	30
Penn State B	Rowan A	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Miami	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Purdue C	UChicago C	10	10	0	20
UIUC A	Purdue D	10	10	0	20
UIUC D	UChicago A	0	10	0	10
WashU B	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	WashU C	0	10	0	10
WashU D	UIUC B	0	10	0	10
Kenyon A	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Kenyon B	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Michigan State A	0	10	10	20
Michigan State C	CWRU C	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
Michigan State B	Pitt A	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Arkansas	10	10	10	30
Central Oklahoma	Oregon State	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State	Colorado College	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Ole Miss	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Vassar B	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	0	20
WUSTL A	Texas C	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Texas D	0	10	0	10
UBC A	SFU	0	10	0	10
UBC B	UW B	0	10	0	10
UW A	Alberta	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	CWRU D	0	0	0	0
UF A	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
UF C	UF D	0	10	0	10
UF E	Florida State University A	0	10	0	10
Bristol B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Manchester	10	10	0	20
Durham A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
LSE A	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Birmingham	LSE B	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt	Bristol A	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Durham B	10	10	0	20
UF B	UF F	10	10	0	20