Question
A book collecting these texts begins with an analysis of Caedmon’s Genesis and ends with eight lines printed in red that state, “I started making maps when I was small.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these kinds of texts anthologized in a book by Alasdair Gray. William Wordsworth wrote one for Lyrical Ballads that calls poetry the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”
ANSWER: prefaces [accept preface to Lyrical Ballads; accept The Book of Prefaces; prompt on essays]
[10m] The last lines of The Book of Prefaces come from Gray’s novel Lanark (“LAN-urk”), which is set in this city and its hellish parallel, Unthank. Shuggie Bain and How Late It Was, How Late are also set here.
ANSWER: Glasgow
[10h] A story by Gray takes the form of the diary of this Scotsman, who proposes healing mankind using a universal language. In real life, he explored similar themes in 1653’s Logopandecteision (“LO-go-pan-deck-TAY-see-on”) and translated Rabelais into English.
ANSWER: Sir Thomas Urquhart [prompt on “Sir Thomas’s Logopandocy”]
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