Question
A poem opening “Welcome, son of thy great father” was written to commemorate this author’s elder son upon his arrival in South Australia to be its Governor. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author whose son Hallam was his official biographer. This poet wrote In Memoriam A.H.H. for a different Hallam.
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson [or Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson]
[10m] Tennyson remarked, “Unlike John the Baptist, I cannot live on locusts and wild honey” in response to this periodical’s school of “bush poetry.” Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson argued over bush life in a debate named for this magazine.
ANSWER: The Bulletin [accept the “Bulletin debate”]
[10h] Arthur Hallam asks “Forgive me, friend, if I find fault…” in a reply to In Memoriam from this poet’s Book of Answers, which also contains the “Coy Mistress’s” reply to Andrew Marvell. This Australian was dubbed “the twentieth century’s greatest eighteenth-century poet.”
ANSWER: A. D. Hope [or Alec Derwent Hope]
<Literature - British Literature - Poetry>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |