Question
A poet with this first name wrote about a woman "afraid of love and me and all things human" in a poem ending "the brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!" For 10 points each:
[10e] The poet of "The Farmer's Bride" had what first name and last name Mew? Mew wrote an introduction to the poems of Emily Brontë, whose literary sisters had first names Anne and this name.
ANSWER: Charlotte [accept Charlotte Mew or Charlotte Brontë]
[10m] Charlotte Mew wrote a poem about the Nunhead one of these places declaring "There is something terrible about a child." Another poem about this type of place references "mute inglorious Miltons" and begins "the curfew tolls the knell of parting day."
ANSWER: cemetery [or churchyard; or graveyard; or burial ground; accept "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; accept "In Nunhead Cemetery"; prompt on church or grave]
[10h] This Imagist poet of Helen in Egypt and Sea Garden praised Charlotte Mew’s monologues. This poet wrote "Whirl up, sea…cover us with your pools of fir" in "Oread."
ANSWER: H. D. [or Hilda Doolittle]
<Literature - British Literature - Poetry>
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 19.76 | 91% | 81% | 26% |