Question
In 2024, a letter describing how this poet "set his mind to evil" in his lost memoirs was discovered in a Cambridge library. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet, who dedicated the fourth canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage to John Hobhouse, who called for the burning of this man's memoirs after he died in the Greek War of Independence.
ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon Byron]
[10m] Hobhouse opposed the publication of this Byron epic that opens, "Bob Southey! You're a poet." This poem's title man falls in love with Haidee ("HAY-dee") and escapes a harem in Constantinople.
ANSWER: Don Juan ("don JOO-an") [accept reasonable mispronunciations like "don yuan"]
[10h] This lover of Byron called his memoirs "a mere-copy book." This author of Glenarvon called Byron "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
ANSWER: Caroline Lamb
<Literature - British Literature - Poetry>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 15.00 | 81% | 60% | 10% |