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In an Olga Tokarczuk (“toh-KAR-chuck”) novel, a translator of this author’s works believes her neighbor Bigfoot was hunted. The speaker demands “bring me my arrows of desire!” in a poem by this author that mentions “dark satanic mills.” Referencing (10[1])Paradise (10[1])Lost, a poem by this author (-5[1])describes “when the stars threw down their spears.” (10[1])This author of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell began his epic Milton with the poem “Jerusalem.” This poet asked “what immortal (10[2])hand or eye could frame thy fearful (10[1])symmetry?” (10[2])in a poem about the title creature “burning bright, in the forests of the night.” (-5[1])For 10 points, name this Romantic poet whose Songs of Experience includes “The Tyger.” ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: William Blake (The Tokarczuk novel is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.)
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