Question
An essay by this author refers to history as “that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of the essay “A Defence of Poetry.” This poet also wrote “To a Skylark.”
ANSWER: Percy Shelley [or Percy Bysshe Shelley]
[10m] Shelley wrote “A Defence of Poetry” in response to this author’s essay “The Four Ages of Poetry.” Shelley is the likely model of Scythrop Glowry, the protagonist of this author’s novel Nightmare Abbey.
ANSWER: Thomas Love Peacock
[10h] Shelley ended “A Defence of Poetry” with the oft-quoted declaration that “poets are the unacknowledged” these people “of the world.” Exact term required.
ANSWER: legislators [accept “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”]
<Literature - British Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 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
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |