Question
This poet wrote that “I could not love thee, dear, so much, / Lov’d I not Honour more” in a poem explaining his decision to fight for Charles I. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Cavalier poet who fought under George Goring in the Bishops’ Wars, which inspired him to write “To Lucasta, Going to the Warres.”
ANSWER: Richard Lovelace
[10e] While under Goring, Lovelace wrote another poem dedicated to Lucasta titled for one of these items. Robert Burns wrote a poem about a “red, red” one of these items.
ANSWER: roses [accept “To Lucasta. The Rose”; accept “A Red, Red Rose”]
[10h] The Bishops’ Wars also inspired Lovelace to write a sonnet to Goring about one of these events. Another poem written for one of these events repeats the line “Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.”
ANSWER: marriages [or weddings] (The first line is “Sonnet. To Generall Goring” and the second line is “Prothalamion” by Edmund Spenser.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
Data
| Columbia A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rowan A | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |