Question
Barton Levi St. Armand coined the goofy term “The Romance of Daisy and Phoebus” for a relationship with this figure, who is addressed in a text beginning “I am ill - but grieving more that you are ill.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this mysterious figure who is the subject of a plea to “open your life wide, and take me in forever,” and is asked “Couldn't Carlo, and you and I walk in the meadows an hour” in two passionate letters written in 1861.
ANSWER: the Master [accept the Master Letters; accept but DO NOT OTHERWISE MENTION answers like “Emily Dickinson's Master”]
[10e] The three “Master letters” are among the most-studied entries in the surviving correspondence of this reclusive American poet known as the “Belle of Amherst.”
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson
[10m] The third “Master” letter ends with a couplet stating “No rose, yet felt myself a'bloom, / No” one of these creatures, “yet rode in Ether.” The speaker offers one “a Crumb” in a Dickinson poem describing how one of them “came down the walk.”
ANSWER: a bird [accept “A Bird came down the Walk”; reject putative synonyms or types of birds]
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 33% | 100% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| Rutgers Diaspora | Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland B+ | Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |