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Winners of a prize granted by this institution receive a reserved spot at the James Merrill House residency program. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this institution that now awards the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish were influential judges for this institution’s Younger Poets Prize, the oldest annual literary award in the US.
ANSWER: Yale University [accept Yale Series of Younger Poets]
[10e] A high watermark of the Yale Series of Younger Poets was the judgeship of this poet, who selected Adrienne Rich and W. S. Merwin, among others. This British-American wrote “Musée des Beaux Arts.”
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]
[10m] In 1956, Auden drew controversy by awarding the prize to Some Trees, this poet’s first book, despite not understanding a word of it. A Parmigianino painting inspired the magnum opus of this New York School poet.
ANSWER: John Ashbery [or John Lawrence Ashbery] (The poem is “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.”)
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Bowdoin ABowdoin B0000
Clark HouseBrandeis A0000
HarvardBrandeis B1010020
MITTufts A0101020
YaleTufts B10101030
BUBowdoin C0000
Boston College AAmherst0000