Question

This poet described an “immense slackening ache” experienced by visitors to a man who directs “God about this eye, that knee.” In a different poem by this author, the speaker is eventually told he is “too selfish, withdrawn, / And easily bored to love.” This poet described death as “The anaesthetic from which none come round” in a poem parodying a medieval French form. Another of this man’s poems considers that “succeeding eyes [began] / To look, not read” at a (*) tomb effigy in Chichester (10[2])Cathedral. That poem by this writer concludes with an “almost-instinct almost truth.” This poet of (10[3])“Aubade” wrote a poem describing how “man hands on misery (10[1])to man,” and advising the reader to not “have any kids yourself.” For 10 (10[1])points, name this librarian and poet who wrote “This Be the (10[1])Verse.” (0[4])■END■

ANSWER: Philip Larkin [or Philip Arthur Larkin] (The unnamed poems are “Faith Healing,” “Wild Oats” and“An Arundel Tomb.”)
<Literature - British Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y667%0%0%101.25
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%0%108.50
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024N475%0%25%118.67
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024N1100%0%0%95.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024N4100%0%0%109.25
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024N367%0%0%107.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eshan PantNYU ARutgers8510
William OrrYaleColumbia A8510
Moses KitakuleColumbia BColumbia C10010
Caleb OttWaterloo BustToronto cDNA10010
Tony ChenToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowlToronto Penguin World War10010
Yihong ChenToronto PilkWaterloo Cali11010
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawaToronto Sprout12410
Annie WilliamsNYU BLehigh B13510
Evan SchleckGathererLehigh A1360
Eddie FuhrerLehigh AGatherer1360
Zoë KaperonisBardPrinceton1360
Jake GrodnerPrincetonBard1360