The speaker of an essay on this activity claims he is afraid to read Tom Jones in case it doesn’t live up to his expectations, which would cause him to never read another novel. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this title activity of an essay which opens with the speaker watching an unwelcome spider crawl along his floor. The “Pleasure of” this activity titles an oft-anthologized essay by William Hazlitt.
ANSWER: hating [accept word forms like hatred; accept “On the Pleasure of Hating”; reject synonyms]
[10h] This poem compares a bad writer to a spider who “spins the slight, self-pleasing thread.” G. K. Chesterton noted the “illuminating” hatred of this poem’s author, which attacks “Atticus” and “Sporus.”
ANSWER: “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” (by Alexander Pope)
[10e] This writer coined the term “good hater” to describe his friend Richard Bathurst. This author defined hatred as “the passion contrary to love” in his Dictionary of the English Language.
ANSWER: Samuel Johnson
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