Question
This man wrote “to you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice. Up!... Out in the morning!” and recommended replacing 90 percent of food with meat. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of Manly Health and Training. This author of the Calamus poems declared “I say now these are the soul” after listing body parts in one poem.
ANSWER: Walt Whitman [prompt on Mose Velsor] (The poem is “I Sing the Body Electric.”)
[10h] Less healthily, this author ate only anchovies and bread to treat his TB. A poem by this author asks “for a beaker full of the warm South” and begins “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense.”
ANSWER: John Keats (The poem is “Ode to a Nightingale.”)
[10e] Many Romantic writers imitated this poet’s bulimia and his weird habit of drinking vinegar. This “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” poet wrote “She Walks in Beauty.”
ANSWER: George Gordon, Lord Byron
<Jaimie Carlson, Literature - British - Poetry> ~20938~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Dallas County | Detroit Catholic Central A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Detroit Country Day | Richard Montgomery | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |