Question

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 Paradise Lost, a poem by this author describes “when the stars threw down (10[1])their spears.” This author of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell began his epic Milton with the poem “Jerusalem.” This poet asked “what immortal hand or eye (-5[1])could frame thy fearful symmetry?” in a poem about the (10[1])title creature “burning bright, in the forests of the night.” For 10 points, name this Romantic poet whose Songs of Experience includes “The Tyger.” (10[1])■END■

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