Question
The speaker of one poem wonders if this figure was “by spirits taught to write, / above a mortal pitch” before expressing disappointment that the “fair youth” preferred this figure. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character from Shakespeare’s sonnets whom some scholars, like Arthur Acheson, claim is a stand-in for George Chapman.
ANSWER: the Rival Poet (Acheson’s book is Shakespeare and the Rival Poet.)
[10e] Henry David Gray claimed this author was the “rival poet,” arguing that the “affable familiar ghost” from Sonnet 86 refers to Ludovico Ariosto, who “misled” this author of The Faerie Queene with “false information.”
ANSWER: Edmund Spenser (Gray’s article is “Shakespeare’s Rival Poet.”)
[10h] Another candidate for the Rival Poet is this tutor of William Herbert, who may be the “Mr. W.H.” in the dedication of Shakespeare’s sonnets. This Elizabethan poet wrote the poem Musophilus and the sonnet cycle Delia.
ANSWER: Samuel Daniel
<Literature - British Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
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| Limp Franceskit | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |