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In a poem by this author, “poetry” is given as the reason a character lets a wolf buy her a drink and then kills him with an axe ten years later. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of “Little Red-Cap.” This author collected poems about female counterparts to famous male figures such as Charles Darwin and Pontius Pilate in The World’s Wife.
ANSWER: Carol Ann Duffy
[10e] In a poem from The World’s Wife, this man’s widow reflects on being bequeathed his “second best bed.” That poem, “Anne Hathaway,” is set after this author is buried in his birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon.
ANSWER: William Shakespeare
[10m] Description acceptable. In a Duffy poem, this person “ages one year in an hour” waiting to celebrate her “Christmas Birthday.” A poem addressing this person as a “dear, dear Friend” notes that “five years have past” since a visit to the title place.
ANSWER: Dorothy Wordsworth [accept descriptions involving William Wordsworth’s sister; prompt on Wordsworth] (The first poem is “Dorothy Wordsworth’s Christmas Birthday.” The second poem is “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth.)
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Cornell CColumbia A10101030
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Yale AVassar10101030
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