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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 (-5[1])the time” and employs this author’s triadic-line form. (15[1])That poem, which appears (15[1])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 / so sweet / and so cold.” For 10 points, name this (10[1])poet of Paterson and (-5[1])“This is Just to Say.” ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: William Carlos Williams (The middle clues refer to “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Benjamin ChapmanToronto AToronto Disband the Club 2k2467-5
Jared HeWaterloo AspidistraOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom7515
Micah ColmanWaterloo BasicToronto B7915
Yusuf BaigMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiMcGill A10710
Kevin LeCarleton AToronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha14410
Rayton LinWaterloo ClozeToronto Metropolitan A148-5
Raymond ChenToronto Disband the Club 2k24Toronto A15410

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