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An essay by Charlotte Ribeyrol analyzes the “pagan podophilia” of this man’s poetry, such as a work in which a woman laments that her female lover has “cruel, faultless feet” that can’t crush love. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Decadent British poet of “Anactoria,” who was inspired by Baudelaire’s retelling of Sappho’s legendary leap off a cliff to write poetry from her perspective. He wrote the collection Poems and Ballads.
ANSWER: Algernon Charlese Swinburne
[10e] In Swinburne’s poem “Sapphics,” the speaker spies on a sexual encounter between Sappho and this “unsandalled” figure. “Anactoria” opens with an epigraph taken from Sappho’s “Hymn” to this goddess.
ANSWER: Aphrodite
[10h] Diana’s feet are called “more soft, more whitely sweet” than those of Venus in Book One of this poem by another author, which ends with Cynthia saying, “There is not one,/ No, no, not one/ But thee.”
ANSWER: Endymion (by John Keats)
<Darren Petrosino, British Literature>

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2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y47.5075%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y210.00100%0%0%
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