Question
This poet acknowledged “the Horror of the shade” in a poem which ends with the frequently-quoted lines “I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Victorian British poet, whose experience of recovering from a leg amputation as a teenager inspired him to write the poem “Invictus.”
ANSWER: William Ernest Henley
[10e] This author, a close friend of Henley, revealed in his letters that Henley’s disability inspired the character Long John Silver in this author’s novel Treasure Island.
ANSWER: Robert Louis Stevenson
[10m] This author wrote that “I was no longer the captain of my soul” in De Profundis, which he wrote while imprisoned in Reading Gaol (“redding jail”).
ANSWER: Oscar Wilde [or Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde]
<Literature - British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
Data
| Fordham | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rowan | Lehigh | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Princeton | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |