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| This author wrote about George Ponderevo and his uncle creating a massive empire of the title panacea in the novel Tono-Bungay. Another of his works deals with an island on which the title character uses vivisection to combine humans and animals. In addition to The Island of Dr. Moreau, this author wrote about a man who arrives at his own dinner party three hours late with a flower as proof of his discovery of the Eloi and Morlocks. Another of his novels concerns survival of the suburbs of London during Martian invasion. For 10 points, name this British author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. | Herbert George Wells |
| The protagonist of this work encounters red sheep in El Dorado. The title character’s love interest is forced to cut off one buttock in order to feed some starving men. After being expelled from Castle Thunder-ten-tronkh in Westphalia, the protagonist is conscripted into the Bulgarian army. One character in this novella preaches the philosophy of the "best of all possible worlds," which the title character becomes disillusioned with in the end. For 10 points, name this magnum opus of Voltaire. | Candide |
| In a short story by this author, Charlie Wales travels to depression era Paris but fails to regain custody of his daughter Honoria. The title character of one of his novels works with a gangster who claims to have fixed the 1919 World Series. This author of “Babylon Revisited” wrote about a murder-suicide committed by the mechanic George Wilson after his wife Myrtle is struck by a yellow car driven by Daisy Buchannan. For 10 points, name this “Jazz Age” American author who included Nick Carraway as the narrator of The Great Gatsby | Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald |
| The protagonist of one novel by this man is taught the skills of a businessman by Kawa Swami, and has his lover Kamala killed by a snake bite. Another work by this man sees Joseph Knecht drown after taking on the title of Magister Ludi after mastering the title Glass Bead Game. Pablo leads the central character to the Magic Theatre after Hermine introduces him to Harry Haller in another work by this author. For 10 points, name this German author of Siddhartha and Steppenwolf. | Hermann Hesse |
| The protagonist of one story by this author plays the piano in the Ocean Room and tells Sybil Carpenter about the title greedy animal before shooting himself in the head. Many of this author’s works are collected in Nine Stories, which tell the stories of Walter, Seymour and other members of the Glass family. One character created by this man rejects the advances of Mr. Antolini and buys a “Little Shirley Beans” record for his sister Phoebe after leaving Pencey Prep. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye. | Jerome David Salinger |
| The narrator of this poem reveals that the central characters “All went lame; all blind” after noting that “many had lost their boots.” Its narrator also describes seeing someone drowning “as under a green sea.” This poem describes “An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time” and ends by warning against “that old lie.” The narrator describes how the troopers “coughed like hags” and “cursed through sludge” during their withdrawal, then witnessed the agony of a comrade stricken by the poisonous gases. For 10 points, name this anti-war poem that uses a Horace quote sarcastically, written by Wilfred Owen | "Dulce et Decorum Est" |
| One object in this work is a "gigantic clock of ebony" causing "disconcert and tremulousness and meditation" every hour. In one scene in this work, the central character chases the antagonist through seven differently-colored rooms. In the first paragraph, it is stated that only half an hour elapses between the appearance of stains and death. Prince Prospero's attempt to protect "a thousand hale and light-hearted friends" backfires when the title character appears in their midst during a ball. For 10 points, name this short story about the title plague, written by Edgar Allen Poe. | "The Masque of the Red Death" |
| In one of his poems, the title concept is "Lust in Action." In addition to "The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame," this poet dedicated a work to Henry Wriothesly that begins "Even as the sun with purple-colour'd face," and this poet also dedicated to Wriothesly his The Rape of Lucrece. In one of this poet's sonnets, he says the addressee "art more lovely and more temperate" than the title entity. For 10 points, name this poet of Venus and Adonis and "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day," better known for his plays like Hamlet. | William Shakespeare |
| A bishop in this work suggests that the main character be relocated near the end of this novel, and the protagonist walks several miles a day in the city as part of a protest of the bus fare. The protagonist stays with Msimangu, who informs the central character of this novel his sister has been working as a prostitute. That protagonist’s son Absalom, along with the protagonist’s nephew, is wanted for the murder of Arthur Jarvis, a crime for which he is executed. For 10 points, name this novel about the preacher Stephen Kumalo, a work by Alan Paton. | Cry, The Beloved Country |
| . In this novel, Paquette la Chantefleurie becomes a secluded nun named Sister Gudule after the presumed death of her daughter. That daughter actually survives and marries the poet Pierre Gringoire to save his life. The villain of this novel kills Captain Phoebus and adopts the title character, who saves the life of the gypsy girl Esmerelda and becomes deaf while working as a bell ringer at the title cathedral. For 10 points, name this Victor Hugo novel about the deformed Quasimodo. | Hunchback of Notre-Dame |
| One figure in this book defends seven sisters at a well and is given Zipporah’s hand as a reward. After returning to the top of a mountain, one figure in this book is forced to cover his face with a veil. That journey was made necessary by the people’s construction of a golden calf in this work. That character in this work returns to his homeland to free his people and after unleashing the angel of death, God leads those people across a parted Red Sea. For 10 points, name this second book of the Torah that recounts the liberation of the Hebrew people from Egypt. | Exodus |
| All his life this man dreaded going insane like his sister Rose, who had received a lobotomy in 1937. In one of his works, the brothers Brick and Gooper and their wives Maggie and Mae return to the Pollitt plantation as Big Daddy dies of cancer. In another of his plays, Amanda tries to convince her crippled daughter Laura to interact with the “gentleman caller” Jim O’Connor. In another of his plays, Stanley Kowalski rapes a woman who has “always depended upon the kindness of strangers,” Blanche Du Bois. For 10 points, name this American playwright of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire. | Tennessee Williams |
| The protagonist of one novel by this man hangs out in the bar Mexico City and doesn’t turn back when he hears the sound of a woman falling into the water. He connected the futility of everyday life with the title mythological figure’s task of rolling a rock up a hill in a philosophical essay. This author of The Fall and “The Myth of Sisyphus” wrote about a man who doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral and who shoots an Arab on the beach. For 10 points, name this existentialist French novelist who wrote about Mersault in The Stranger. | Albert Camus |
| This author was inspired by the death of “Match King” Ivar Kreuger to write her play Night of January 16th. The protagonist of one of her works travels through the Uncharted Forest and renames himself Prometheus after falling in love with Liberty 5-3000. The protagonist of one of her novels is criticized by Ellsworth Toohey and possibly rapes Dominuque Francon before dynamiting his own building. For 10 points, name this author of Anthem who wrote about the architect Howard Roark in The Fountainhead. | Ayn Rand |
| In this work, the author notes the simultaneous growth of Catholicism and lapse of Catholics. In this work, the author argues that an extensive, degrading despotism that keeps citizens in "perpetual childhood" is a fundamental obstacle to the title concept. This work examines trial by jury and its role in preventing a "tyranny of the majority." This work was published in two volumes five years apart. For 10 points, name this work inspired by the visit to the United States by its author Alexis de Toqueville. | Democracy in America |
| The title character of one play by this man takes Andrea Sarti as his pupil and lives with his daughter Virginia. In one of this author’s plays, Azdak draws the title object after hearing of Grusha’s actions. In addition to The Caucasian Chalk Circle, this writer penned the lyrics to the song “Pirate Jenny” for a work adopted from a John Gay opera. Another play by this author sees the title character drive a wagon during the Thirty Years War with her children Eilif, Swiss Cheese, and the mute Kattrin. For 10 points, name this German playwright of the Three Penny Opera and Mother Courage and her Children. | Bertolt Brecht |
| In one of his poems, the speaker sees a spider and a flower and asks if the title concept "govern in a thing so small." In addition to "Design," this poet also wrote that if the world "had to perish twice," it could suitably be destroyed with both "Fire and Ice." In another poem, the pines and the apple orchard are separated by the title structure, while in another poem, the speaker notes that it "has made all the difference" that he "took the one less traveled by." For 10 points, name this poet who used the motif, "Good fences make good neighbors" in "Mending Wall" and wrote "The Road Not Taken." | Robert Lee Frost |
| This poet praised a thing that never “asked a crumb of me” and “perches in the soul” in a poem that begins “Hope is the thing with feathers.” This author wrote that “the stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air” in a poem in which “I heard a fly buzz when I died.” She wrote about a character who “kindly stopped for me” in a carriage containing “Immortality” in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” For 10 points, name this reclusive Massachusetts poet known as “The Belle of Amherst.” | Emily Dickinson |
| This poet describes a weary knight who dreams of a surreal encounter with a "faery’s child" before waking in the same position, in La Belle Dame sans Merci. This poet who addressed a "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" in "To Autumn" also addressed a "light-winged dryad of the trees." In addition to Ode to a Nightingale, this poet also penned the lines "Beauty is truth, and truth beauty – that is all / you know on Earth, and all you need to know." For 10 points, name this man, the last of the English Romantic poets, remembered for penning Ode to a Grecian Urn. | John Keats |
| One character crated by this author replies "I don’t hate it . . . ; I don’t hate it . . . I don’t hate it” when asked “Why do you hate the south?” That character rooms with the Canadian Shreve at Harvard and he later drowns himself. In another novel by this author, one character has his name changed from Maury when it is discovered that he is retarded. One section of a novel by this author focuses on the black servant Dilsey, and others focus on the retarded Benjy and promiscuous Caddie. For 10 points, name this southern author that wrote about Quentin and the rest of the Compson family in his novels Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury. | William Cuthbert Faulkner |
| The title character of one of this man’s poems plays his music “where Saint Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings.” The speaker of another of his poems notes “yet God has not said a word,” after strangling a woman with her hair. As the author of “A Toccata of Galuppi” and “Porphyria’s Lover,” this poet also created a poetic treatment of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. He pioneered the “dramatic monologue,” an example of which sees a duke tell of how he had his wife killed because “she had a heart too soon made glad.” For 10 points, name this British Victorian poet of "My Last Duchess," the husband of Elizabeth Barrett. | Robert Browning (prompt on “Browning”) |
| Book One of this work is a series of dedications, including an acknowledgment of the author's grandfather Verus. In Book Five, the author encourages a waking man to consider his role in nature. He exhorts readers never to act without purpose for life is short. He writes "Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite" in reference to the three topoi posited in the Discourses of Epictetus, which is frequently quoted in this work. For 10 points, identify this masterpiece of Stoic philosophy written by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. | Meditations |
| One novel by this author centers on the photographer Aurora del Valle, the granddaughter of Eliza Sommers, who moves to San Francisco in her novel Daughter of Fortune. This author wrote about an impoverished girl who discovers a gift for storytelling in Eva Luna. In another novel by this author, the death of the green-haired Rosa the Beautiful causes the protagonist Clara to stop speaking. For 10 points, name this Chilean novelist who allegorized the coup against her cousin Salvador in The House of the Spirits. | Isabel Allende |
| In a short story by this author, the banker Dmitri Gurov falls in love with Ana while vacationing in Yalta and begins an illicit affair. A play by this author was adapted from The Wood Demon and features Ivan Voynitsky, who becomes tired of looking after the estate of his professor brother-in-law. This author of “Lady with a Dog” and Uncle Vanya also wrote of the young playwright Treplev who kills himself after killing the title bird. For 10 points, name this Russian playwright of The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull. | Anton Chekhov |
| This author opposed Naziism in his address "An Appeal to Reason," while it is often claimed that this author portrayed fascism in a novella where Cipolla is the second title character, Mario and the Magician. A Davos TB sanatorium is the setting for one of this author's works, whose protagonist is Hans Castorp. In another of his novels, the boy Tadzio is the object of affection of the writer Gustav von Aschenbach, who dies of cholera in the title city. For 10 points, name this German author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice. | Thomas Mann |
| This poem parodies an Irving Berlin song in describing “that Shakespearian Rag” as “so elegant so intelligent.” Much of the imagery in this poem was inspired by Jessie Weston’s book about the Fisher King and the Grail legend. One section of this poem promises to “show you fear in a handful of dust,” and this poem ends with the incantation “Shantih shantih shantih.” This poem’s five sections include “Death by Water” and “A Game of Chess,” and it begins “April is the cruellest month.” For 10 points, name this poem by T.S. Eliot. | The Waste Land |
| The protagonist of this novel frees a servant boy who has been tied up to a tree after having been cheated out of wages. One section of this novel is devoted to a love triangle between Cardenio, Lucinda, and Ferdinand. Its protagonist becomes obsessed with Amadis of Gaul and fights with Samson Carrasco. That protagonist also falls in love with Dulcinea, jousts with windmills, and is served by the loyal squire Sancho Panza. For 10 points, name this Spanish masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes. | Don Quixote |
| In one scene in this novel, Senator Bird disobeys a law he just passed to help Eliza. The plot of this novel begins when Mr. Shelby becomes indebted and the protagonist meets Haley as a result. In this novel, the saintliness of Eva is contrasted with the petulant Topsy and cranky aunt Ophelia. The death of Eva and her father Augustine St. Clare force the title character to go to a plantation in rural Louisiana. In this novel, Cassie unsuccessfully tries to convince the protagonist to kill the cruel slave driver Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this 1852 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| In one of his poems, this author wrote that “it was at that age... Poetry arrived in search of me.” He began another of his poems with the line “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” He described travelling “From air to air, like an empty net” in “The Heights of Machu Pichu,” which is found in his collection Canto General. His most famous poetry is found in the volume Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. For 10 points, name this socialist Chilean author famed for his love poetry. | Pablo Neruda |
| When the protagonist of this novel sees his old flame he remembers the song lyrics “Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me.” Part of this novel is a lengthy expert from The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein. This novel’s protagonist has an affair with a woman who wears the sash of the Junior Anti-Sex League. That protagonist is taken to Room 101 for reindoctrination after being caught in his rebellion against Oceania and Big Brother. For 10 points, name this dystopian novel about Winston Smith by George Orwell. | 1984 |
| The title character of a story by this author loses his job at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Hall, goes on a spending spree in New York with stolen money, and steps in front of a train. This author set a novel about the talented singer Thea Kronborg in Moonstone, Colorado. This author of “Paul’s Case” and The Song of the Lark wrote about Alexandra Bergson’s successful management of a farm and love for Carl Linstrom in another novel. Many of her novels are set in Nebraska, including one about Jim Burden’s remembrance of the title Bohemian girl. For 10 points, name this author of O Pioneers! and My Antonia. | Willa Cather |
| An important symbol in this novel is a rose bush which supposedly sprung up outside the prison door under the footsteps of Ann Hutchinson. Its frame narrative, in which a man finds the title object and a manuscript by Jonathan Pue, is found in the introduction “The Custom House.” The antagonist of this novel is Roger Chillingworth, a doctor who escapes capture from Indians and suspects that Pearl’s father is the minister Arthur Dimmesdale. For 10 points, name this novel in which Hester Prynne is forced to wear the title badge, the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne. | The Scarlet Letter |
| One of this man’s works opens with the question “supposing truth is a woman - what then?” Another work of this thinker includes a parable about a madman who runs through a marketplace seeking God. This author of The Gay Science wrote “when you look long into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you” in a book of aphorisms. This thinker explained the struggle between the Apollonian and Dionysian forms and introduced the term “ubermensch” or “superman.” For 10 points, name this German philosopher and author of The Birth of Tragedy and Thus Spake Zarathustra. | Nietzsche |
| One character in this play checks the mail to find two business cards with black crosses on them. Those cards were sent by a dying syphilitic man named Dr. Rank who had earlier declared his love for the protagonist. Before the action of this play, one character had secured a warm weather vacation by forging her father’s signature for a loan, leading to Nils Krogstad’s blackmail. This play ends with a slamming door indicating the end of Torvald’s marriage. For 10 points, name this Henrik Ibsen play about Nora Helmer. | A Doll’s House |
| In one novel, this author wrote about "The Fortunate Mistress" who knew a maid named Amy, Roxana. In another of this man's novels, the title character, who marries Robin and Jemy, unwittingly marries her brother. Another of this author's works is narrated by a character only known as H. F., and that novel describes the events of 1665. For 10 points, name this author of A Journal of the Plague Year and Moll Flanders who adapted the tale of Alexander Selkirk in his novel about Xury and Man Friday, Robinson Crusoe. | Daniel Defoe [or Daniel Foe] |
| In one work by this author, the radio has replaced recitations of classic poetry in a central gathering place. One character in a novel by this author is thrown out of her home after being hit by a car. The sequel to that novel by this author begins five years after the death of Fahmy, and sees Kamal study to become a teacher. Both of those novels are part of a series by this author about the family of Al-Sayyid Ahmad. For 10 points, name this Egyptian Nobel laureate, the writer of Midaq Alley that included Sugar Street and Palace of Desire in his Cairo Trilogy. | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Characters in this work include the female knight Britomart and the sorceror Archimago. It was intended to comprise at least twelve books, but its author died before he could complete the seventh book, which is known as the Cantos of Mutability. As in an earlier work by its author, the character and possible author avatar Colin Clout appears in the sixth book. Its first book discusses the rescue of Una by the Redcrosse Knight and contains a representation of Elizabeth I named Gloriana. For 10 points, name this epic poem by Edmund Spenser. | The Faerie Queene |
| In one of this poet's works, the title object "made the woods of April bright" and the title object's "modest bell / Peeps from last year's leaves below." This poet of "The Yellow Violet" also wrote an "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood." In another poem the speaker says "There is a Power whose care / Teaches [the title figure's] way along that pathless coast," while another of his poems is addressed "to him who in the love of Nature holds / Communion with her visible forms." For 10 points, name this poet of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis." | William Cullen Bryant |
| This writer created a character who is so stingy that he only lends people the phrase “good day.” That character, Harpagon, suspects his children are conspiring to rob him in this author’s play The Miser. In another of his plays, Alcest pines after the manipulative widow Celimene despite his high moral standards. In another of his plays, Orgon almost gives his estate away to the title religious hypocrite before a representative of the king saves the day. For 10 points, name this French comedic playwright and author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe. | Moliere |
| This work’s seventh section contains an omen of bees swarming a laurel tree. Its title character gathers the penates, or hearth gods, before he carries his father to safety. The protagonist of this poem is told by the Sibyl to find the golden bough. That protagonist loses his wife Creusa before warring Turnus for the hand of Lavinia. This poem’s fourth book includes the death by fire of Dido, and it opens with a harrowing escape from the ruins of Troy. For 10 points, name this epic poem by Virgil. | The Aeneid |
| One character in this novel decides to sell chocolate covered cotton when he learns the market is saturated with regular cotton. Characters in this novel include Orr, who tries to get a hooker to knock him out. Another character in this novel resembles Henry Fonda and is promoted to Major by an IBM computer. This novel is set on Pianosa and features the racketeer Milo Minderbinder, the medic Doc Daneeka, and a protagonist who tries to avoid flying missions. For 10 points, name this satiric war novel about John Yossarian by Joseph Heller. | Catch 22 |
| This author's expedition to Cuba was the basis of his story about four characters on the title object, including a correspondent and an oiler named Billy Higgins. In addition to "The Open Boat," this author wrote a novel where Jimmie Johnson objects to Pete's date with the title character, as well as a novel where the tall Jim Conklin is the friend of the protagonist in a novel set at the Battle of Chancellorsville. For 10 points, name this author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, who created Henry Fleming in his Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage. | Stephen Townley Crane |
| In this novel, the protagonist finds his way to the ruinous House of Shaws, where it appears that his uncle is trying to see him killed in an "accident." After being sold into service aboard a ship bound for "Caroliny," the protagonist is eventually marooned with the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart. His adventure continues south through Scotland, eventually returning to the House of Shaws to see justice done upon his miserly uncle Ebenezer. For 10 points, name this Robert Louis Stevenson novel about the abduction of David Balfour. | Kidnapped |
| This poet wrote about a lonely girl on the “moated grange” who echos the refrain “‘I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!” in his “Mariana.” He included the line “tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” in an elegy on the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. This poet wrote of one group “Their's not to make reply, their's not to reason why” after “someone had blundered.” That poem by this author documents a group of six hundred who rode “into the valley of death during the Crimean War. For 10 points, name this Victorian poet of In Memoriam and “The Charge of the Light Brigade. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| In this work, the speaker says that the addressee “set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus,” and that he "blew the suffering of America's naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry." Part II of this work begins with multiple invocations to Moloch, and in Part III, the speaker tells Carl Solomon "I'm with you in Rockland." For 10 points, name this poem where the speaker "saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," a 1956 poem by Allen Ginsberg. | "Howl" |
| A sequel to this work centers on a climb up a tall mountain with seven cornices. Its protagonist gets a ride on the monstrous Geryon. One section of this poem depicts Ugolino gnawing on the head of Ruggieri. The protagonist of this work is rowed past the city of Dis by Phlegyas, and encounters the lovers Paolo and Francesca after leaving Limbo. For 10 points, name this first part of the Divine Comedy, an Italian poem depicting the nine circles of hell and written by Dante Alighieri. | Inferno |
| This author wrote a story about a group of barbarians who slowly take over a city in “An Old Manuscript.” In another of his stories, a soldier vigorously praises the deceased Commandant and operates a machine that slowly executes people by writing their crimes on their flesh. The protagonist of a more famous story is killed by an apple thrown by his father, and works as a salesman before being turned into a giant insect. For 10 points, name this author of “In the Penal Colony” and “The Metamorphosis.” | Franz Kafka |
| In one poem, this author wrote “some do it with a look, some with a flattering word” after noting that “each man kills the thing he loves.” In one of this man’s tragic works, the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas I asks for the head of John the Baptist after performing the Dance of the Seven Veils. This author of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Salome wrote a satire in which Jack Worthing is found as a baby in Victoria Station and has a fiancée who is in love with his name. For 10 points, name this author of The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| . This author wrote about the private investigator Doc Sportello in his detective novel set in 1960s Los Angeles, his Inherent Vice. The protagonist of another of his novels witnesses the Jacobean drama The Courier's Tragedy and encounters the secret mail service Tristero while executing the will of Pierce Inverarity. In another of his novels, Tyrone Slothrop can predict the fall of V-2 rockets. For 10 points, name this reclusive American author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow. | Thomas Pynchon |
| One of this author's stories involves the appearance of the blood-written word "RACHE," which Mr. Lestrade incorrectly identifies as a reference to Rachel. In another story, Jonathan Small and three Indians make up the title group. This author of "The Sign of the Four" and "A Study in Scarlet" also wrote a story about Stapleton, who tries to use the title creature to kill two heirs and gain the family estate. For 10 points, name this author of The Hound of the Baskervilles, who created Professor Moriarty, Dr. Watson, and the detective Sherlock Holmes. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| This novel opens with the statement that the protagonist "did not read the newspapers." One character in this book bets Matthewson that the protagonist "can start a thousand pounds," and other characters in this novel include the bumbling Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. The protagonist, a rival of Spitz, was earlier obtained by the mail carriers François and Perrault. At the beginning of this novel, the central character lives in the Santa Clara Valley with Judge Miller, until he is kidnapped and taken to the Yukon. For 10 points, name this novel about a dog named Buck, written by Jack London. | The Call of the Wild |
| This author wrote about a speaker who, "from time to time, look'd up in perfect silence at the stars" in "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." His poems based on his experience as a Civil War nurse were collected in Drum-Taps. In another of his poems, the title character "has fallen cold and dead." This poet "permit[s] to speak at every hazard, nature without check with original energy." For 10 points, name this poet who wrote "O Captain! My Captain," about Abraham Lincoln's death and who included "Song of Myself" in the poetry collection Leaves of Grass. | Walt" Whitman |
| This author originally published his novels anonymously to maintain his reputation as the poet of Marmion and The Lady of the Lake. He coined the name Cedric. This author also wrote a tale of two lovers in the Lammermoor Hills, Lucy Ashton and Edgar of Ravenwood. In addition to The Bride of Lammermoor, this author wrote a novel about a knight who returns from the Crusades and duels Brian de Bois-Guilbert before marrying Lady Rowena. For 10 points, name this Scottish poet and author of Ivanhoe. | Sir Walter Scott, |
| A 1944 adaptation of this play added the knitting queen Eurydice and three card-playing guards and was written by Jean Anouilh. One character in this play is engaged to marry Haemon, who stabs himself after discovering her dead body. Its title character is sentenced to be entombed while alive, after ignoring the warnings of her sister Ismene and giving a proper ritual burial to her brother Polynices. For 10 points, name this play about a struggle between King Creon of Thebes and the title daughter of Oedipus. | Antigone |
