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This English-language poet wrote of a “whisper of the wind in that pine tree, / sweet as the murmur of live water” in his translation of Theocritus’s Idyl I. This poet introduced a long poem as a “reply to Greek and Latin with the bare hands.” This author echoed Xenophon by exclaiming, “the sea! The sea!” in a poem that describes how Homer’s catalogue of ships “fills up the time” and employs this author’s triadic-line form. (15[1])That poem, which appears in this author’s collection Journey to Love, compares the title (*) flower to a “buttercup upon its branching stem.” This poet repeated the maxim “no ideas but in things” (10[1])in an epic poem about a city in New Jersey. A short poem by this author ends by imploring, “forgive me / they were delicious (10[1])/ so sweet (10[1])/ and so cold.” For 10 points, name this poet of Paterson and “This is Just to Say.” ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: William Carlos Williams (The middle clues refer to “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.”)
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