A poet born in this present-day country detailed his country’s founding in the first section of his poem “Inside Us the Dead.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this birth country of Albert Wendt. A tombstone for Robert Louis Stevenson, who died in this country, is inscribed with a poem claiming “This be the verse you grave for me/Here he lies where he longed to be.”
ANSWER: Samoa [or Independent State of Samoa or Malo Sa’oloto Tuto’atasi o Somoa; accept Western Samoa; reject “American Samoa”]
[10e] The poem on Robert Louis Stevenson’s tombstone was the source of the title of this British poet’s poem “This Be the Verse.”
ANSWER: Philip Larkin [or Philip Arthur Larkin]
[10m] This other British poet visited Stevenson’s house in Samoa before going off to fight in World War I. This poet of “Tiare Tahiti” wrote “there’s some corner of a foreign field/that is for ever England” in “The Soldier.”
ANSWER: Rupert Brooke [or Rupert Chawner Brooke]
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