Question
A poem by this author addressed "to my Lord Fairfax" asks, "Why should of all things man unrul'd / Such unproportioned dwellings build?" For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of the country house poem "Upon Appleton House." This author's most famous poem ends, "though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run."
ANSWER: Andrew Marvell (The poem is "To His Coy Mistress.")
[10h] A character in this novella takes his nickname "Starry" from "Upon Appleton House." This novella ends with a poem named for its title character "in the Darbies" ending "the oozy weeds about me twist."
ANSWER: Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) [or Billy Budd, Foretopman; prompt on "Billy in the Darbies" by asking "what novella is that poem from?"]
[10e] Billy Budd was written by this author, who created a hymn describing "The ribs and terrors in the whale" in his novel Moby Dick.
ANSWER: Herman Melville
<Literature - American Literature - Poetry>
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 15.71 | 98% | 43% | 17% |