Question
A poem titled for this man describes, “three fork’d lightning, first / Breaking the clouds where it was nurst.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this "restless" man who could not cease "in the inglorious arts of peace” in a poem written in the style of Horace.
ANSWER: Oliver Cromwell [or “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland”]
[10e] This Thomas Gray poem mentions “Some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood,” resting alongside a "mute inglorious Milton." Its "Epitaph" addresses a “youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.”
ANSWER: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
[10h] Despite praising the Protectorate in his “Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell,” John Dryden changed his stance and praised Charles II in this other poem, which calls the king a “happy prince.”
ANSWER: Astraea Redux
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Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 88% | 38% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago B | Notre Dame A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana A | WUSTL | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota | Notre Dame B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern B | Illinois C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana B | Notre Dame C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SIUE | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |