Question
A letter mailed from Concord, Massachusetts describes this “wonderful gift” of a book as the “most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “fortifying and encouraging” book extolled in a letter that warmly remarks, “I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start.”
ANSWER: Leaves of Grass
[10e] That letter was by this transcendentalist, whose 1844 essay “The Poet” moved Whitman to write Leaves of Grass with its call to action for a new poetic genius in America. This author wrote the essay “Self-Reliance.”
ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson
[10m] In his reply to Emerson, Whitman refers to him as a “dear friend” and by this title. A set of three passionate letters by Emily Dickinson are enigmatically addressed to an anonymous figure with this title.
ANSWER: Master [accept Master letters]
<RK, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
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| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
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