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A poet from this country wrote about a “part vulture, part wolf / part neither” that “seemed to know the harbour” in his poem “The Shark.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country of E. J. Pratt, who was the subject of “Silence in the Sea” by Northrop Frye, a critic from here. A fictional village in this country names The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.
ANSWER: Canada
[10h] In “Silence in the Sea,” Frye claims that this author’s works were “popular” rather than “serious poetry.” A poem by this author describes the “strange things done in the midnight sun” during a gold rush.
ANSWER: Robert W. Service [or Robert William Service] (The poem is “The Cremation of Sam McGee.”)
[10e] Canadian schoolchildren often recite a poem written during this event that begins “In Flanders fields, the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” This event also inspired Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est.”
ANSWER: World War I [or WWI or the First World War or the Great War]
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Imperial BBirmingham1001020
LSE BBristol B10101030
Oxford ACambridge B1001020
Cambridge ACambridge C0101020
SouthamptonCambridge D1001020
Durham BEdinburgh1001020
LSE ABristol A10101030
ManchesterImperial A001010
Durham AOxford B001010
Southampton AWarwick A001010
VanderbiltWarwick B001010