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 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 (10[1])or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?” in a poem about the title creature “burning bright, in the forests of the night.” For 10 points, name this Romantic poet whose Songs of Experience includes “The Tyger.” ■END■

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