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One of these poems describes a figure who “dwells with Beauty Beauty that must die” and begins “no, no, go not to Lethe.” In another of these (-5[1])poems, the speaker compares the word “forlorn” (10[1])to “a bell to toll me back from thee” before declaring, “adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades.” (10[1])At the beginning of one of these poems, a “drowsy numbness pains” (10[1])the speaker, who at the end of that work asks “do I wake or sleep?” One of these poems about a “still unravish’d bride of quietness” (-5[1])declares “beauty is truth, truth (-5[1])beauty.” For 10 points, name this set of British Romantic poems addressed “to a Nightingale” and “on a (10[1])Grecian Urn.” ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: odes by John Keats [or John Keats’s odes; prompt on odes alone; prompt on Keats poems; prompt by asking “who wrote that poem?” on “Ode to Melancholy” or “Ode to a Nightingale” or “Ode on a Grecian Urn”] (The poem in the first line is “Ode on Melancholy”.)
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%11%103.56
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY8100%0%38%90.00
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY650%0%17%99.67
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1283%0%67%109.00
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY967%0%33%100.33
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY5100%0%60%103.60
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY8100%0%50%106.38
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY989%0%33%90.63

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Carter Pisocky (DII)Michigan D (UG)Ohio State A (UG) 27-5
Beckett Gilmore (DII)Jefferson County Scholars (DII)Miami C (DII) 3410
Peter Zeng (DII)Ohio State B (DII) Michigan State A 5110
Mark Lee (DII)Michigan B (UG)CWRU B (DII) 6310
Nidhi Kundargi (DII)Michigan State B West Virginia A (UG) 89-5
Jackson Gangle (DII)Miami B (UG) Michigan C 94-5
Lucas Gagen (DII)Miami A (UG) CWRU C (UG)11210
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Venkat Das (DII)West Virginia A (UG) Michigan State B 11510
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Brady Hagan (DII)Ohio State C (DII) West Virginia B (UG) 11510