Question
The creation of the world and several subsequent eras from the Bible are recounted in this author’s epic poems Semains, or Weeks. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this influential 16th century French poet whom Anne Bradstreet called the “Pearl of France” in a poem from The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America titled “In Honor of” him.
ANSWER: Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas [or Guillaume Sallustre; or Guillaume de Salluste, Seigneur Du Bartas; accept any underlined portion; accept “In Honour of du Bartas”; prompt on Bartas]
[10m] Punning on the title of Weeks, this contemporary of du Bartas remarked, “du Bartas has done more in one Week than I have done in my entire life.” This member of La Pléiade wrote “Ode to Cassandre” and the unfinished epic Franciade.
ANSWER: Pierre de Ronsard
[10e] Sadly, du Bartas became unpopular after the 17th century, which Goethe bemoaned in his translation of this author’s dialogue Rameau’s Nephew. This author also wrote the novel Jacques the Fatalist.
ANSWER: Denis Diderot
<Literature - European Literature - Poetry>
Summary
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Data
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 10 | 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 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |