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In a review of Prufrock and Other Observations, Ezra Pound claimed, “The most interesting poems in Victorian English are” those found in Men and Women, a collection by an author with this surname. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this surname of an author who is told, “Hang it all…there can be but the one ‘Sordello’” in The Cantos. An author with this surname wrote about doing an action as men “strive for right” and “turn from praise.”
ANSWER: Browning [accept Robert Browning or Elizabeth Barrett Browning] (The poem is “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.)
[10e] Along with ballads, Pound translated poems in this form by Guido Cavalcanti. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a collection titled for poems in this 14-line form “from the Portuguese.”
ANSWER: sonnets [accept Sonnets from the Portuguese or the Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti]
[10h] A Pound poem about a person with this profession ends, “Show us there’s chance at least of winning through.” Robert Browning wrote, “But do not let us quarrel any more” to open a poem about a person with this profession.
ANSWER: artist [or painter] (The poems are “To Whistler, American” and “Andrea del Sarto.”)
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