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The speaker of an Ella Wilcox poem titled for this phrase claims it “lacks force” and instead “life’s best truths perverts.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this four-word phrase that is the saddest “of all words of tongue or pen” according to the title woman of the poem “Maud Muller.”
ANSWER: “it might have been”
[10m] This author wrote “It is, but hadn’t ought to be” in his own “Maud Muller” parody “Mrs. Judge Jenkins.” In a story by this author, John Oakhurst names a “damned little cuss” of a baby who dies in a flood.
ANSWER: Bret Harte [or Francis Brett Harte] (The story is “The Luck of Roaring Camp.”)
[10e] This poet wrote that John Greenleaf Whittier’s sappy and easily-parodied nostalgia was a “star” that still belongs in the “constellation” of American poetry. This Southern poet wrote the novel All the King’s Men.
ANSWER: Robert Penn Warren
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