Question
An essay by this author refers to history as “that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of the essay “A Defence of Poetry.” This poet also wrote “To a Skylark.”
ANSWER: Percy Shelley [or Percy Bysshe Shelley]
[10m] Shelley wrote “A Defence of Poetry” in response to this author’s essay “The Four Ages of Poetry.” Shelley is the likely model of Scythrop Glowry, the protagonist of this author’s novel Nightmare Abbey.
ANSWER: Thomas Love Peacock
[10h] Shelley ended “A Defence of Poetry” with the oft-quoted declaration that “poets are the unacknowledged” these people “of the world.” Exact term required.
ANSWER: legislators [accept “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”]
<Literature - British Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
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| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
Data
| Music to Help You Stop Smoking | BHSU ReFantazio | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Clown Senpais | Northeast by Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Squad | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Notre Dame | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WashU | hawk two of | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | BHSU Rebirth | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cien Años de Quizboledad | Cambridge | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Simple Vibes | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Defying Suavity | Limp Franceskit | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Walston et. al. | Cope is the thing with feathers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| just one more half-dot bro | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford+ | Cry of the Common Loon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |