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 - Misc Literature>
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| I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Thompson et al. | UBC | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |