Question

In a poem from this collection, a boy whose lips “burr” gets lost while fetching a doctor for his neighbor. The speaker hopes to find “pleasure in the dimness of stars” in a poem from this collection that disputes Milton by stating, “In Nature there is nothing melancholy.” In a poem from this collection, a little girl remarks that she sings songs to her two siblings who “in the church-yard lie.” (-5[1])The claim that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” is from this collection, which contains the poems “The Nightingale” and (10[1])“We Are Seven.” The poet’s sister Dorothy (10[1]-5[1])is the addressee of a poem from this collection set on the banks (-5[1])of the River Wye. For 10 points, “Tintern Abbey” is from what collection of poems by (10[1])Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Lyrical Ballads [or Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems] (The first poem is “The Idiot Boy.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Perry O'Connor (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)UNC A (Grad)70-5
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)Virginia A (UG)9410
Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII)Duke A (UG)UNC D (DII)10110
Caleb Kendrick (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)UNC C (UG)101-5
Charlotte Goeb (UG)Virginia B (UG)William & Mary A (UG)114-5
Joshua Schmidt (DII)Liberty B (DII)GWU A (UG)13010
Jim Fan (Grad)UNC A (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)13710
Nathan Redford (DII)Liberty C (DII)JMU B (UG)1370
Ian He (UG)UNC C (UG)Maryland A (Grad)1370

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