Question
Answer the following about Dunwich, a melancholy Suffolk port village that sank slowly but inexorably into the sea over the centuries, in the imaginations of various authors, for 10 points each.
[10e] In The English Hours, this author recalls fondly of Dunwich that “the minor key is struck here with a felicity that leaves no sigh to be breathed.” This author wrote The Turn of the Screw after moving to Britain.
ANSWER: Henry James
[10h] The narrator of this novel describes Dunwich as a city “dissolved into water, sand, and thin air,” beneath a forlorn photo of the All Saints’ Parish. This novel’s unnamed narrator meets his friend Michael Hamburger in Middleton.
ANSWER: The Rings of Saturn [or Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt] (by W. G. Sebald)
[10m] This chronically nervous poet found respite in the ruins of Dunwich, and took long walks along its cliffs, inspiring the poem By The North Sea. This Victorian poet wrote Atalanta in Calydon.
ANSWER: Algernon Swinburne
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