Question

After moving to the West Indies, James Grainger wrote a poem in this genre that James Boswell called a laughingstock for its line, “Now, Muse, let’s sing of rats.” A poem in this genre, John Dyer’s The Fleece, was written during its 18th-century heyday in Britain. The most famous work in this genre inspired a poem in which readers are instructed on how to avoid being hit by chamber pots while walking London streets, John Gay’s Trivia. An essay by Joseph Addison accompanied another author’s 1697 translation of a poem in this genre that renders one line as “What cannot endless (*) labour, urged by need?” The idiom “tempus fugit” comes from the poem that names this genre, (-5[1])whose fourth book contains descriptions of bugonia in its extended discussion of beekeeping, an Aristaeus epyllion. For 10 points, what genre of didactic poems is named for a verse treatise on agriculture that Virgil wrote after his Eclogues? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: georgics [accept The Georgics; accept Georgica; prompt on didactic poem until “didactic” is read; prompt on pastorals or bucolics or descriptions of poems to do with agriculture or farming; reject “eclogues”] (The first clue appears in The Life of Samuel Johnson; the 1697 translation is by John Dryden.)
<Henry Atkins, British Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jordan BrownsteinThe Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host ClubThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub116-5
Nick JensenThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet SubThe Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club15510

Summary

2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y1100%0%100%155.00