Question
This book’s introductory “Author’s Account of Himself” likens it to the work of a landscape artist who paints nooks, corners, and by-places, but “not a single glacier or volcano.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book made up mainly of vignettes about English life, including four pieces set at Bracebridge Hall on Christmas. Its narrator talks to a book in Westminster Abbey in “The Mutability of Literature.”
ANSWER: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
[10e] This American author wrote The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, which includes stories attributed to another of his alter egos, Diedrich Knickerbocker.
ANSWER: Washington Irving
[10m] A piece from The Sketch Book about this activity agrees with an earlier author that “a man must be born to it.” Venator learns the joys of this activity in a 1653 book in which a milkmaid recites “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.”
ANSWER: fishing [or angling; accept The Compleat Angler; accept “The Angler”] (Izaak Walton wrote The Compleat Angler.)
<American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 12 | 12.50 | 92% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago D | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| McGill | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Penn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |