Quizbowl Lit

This poet described a “heart melting...like candles” and “life fleeing hushed and gentle like the gazelle” in “Dusk.” Another of her works asks God to save a man from “wicked hands” and cries “You are going to judge me, you know it, Lord!” That work promises to be covered up and then “speak for an eternity” to a man whom she also addressed in “To See Him Again.” This poet described following her mother through a series of black (*) hills in the first section of a collection mourning her mother’s death, “Tala.” This poet’s most famous work declares “From the cold niche where men placed you / I will lower you to the humble and sunny ground” and is addressed to her ex-lover Romelio Ureta. For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of “Desolación” and “Sonnets of Death.”

Gabriela Mistral

"This poet commented that ""Who are a little wise, the best fools be"" in his poem, ""The Triple Fool."" The speaker of another of his works mentions how a firmness ""makes me end where I begun"" and begins with describing how ""virtuous men pass mildly away"". This author also wrote about how ""our two bloods mingled be"" after an insect (*) ""sucks me first and now sucks thee"", and another work mentions how a certain figure is a ""slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men"". For ten points, name this metaphysical poet of ""A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,"" ""The Flea,"" and Holy Sonnet X, ""Death be not proud."""

John Donne

A notable translator of this work wrote Notes on Prosody as an appendix to his translation, and it commented on the meter employed. The protagonist makes bitter notes in the margin of his copy of Don Juan and is declared bankrupt just as his uncle declares him his heir. He only sees the beauty of the heroine once she is married off to Prince Gremin. Ironically, he had earlier rejected her despite her passionate love letter and instead carelessly flirted with her sister Olga, incurring the wrath of the poet Vladimir Lensky. The tragic love between the original “superfluous man” and Tatiana Larina is the subject of, for 10 points, what novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin?

Eugene Onegin

In this work, education is theorized to undermine the economy by its creation of more self-critical attitudes. This work asserts that wants are increasingly created by the process by which they are satisfied in its formulation of the “dependence effect”. Arguing that the government should shift its resources to improving infrastructure and social services, this work criticizes the “conventional wisdom” of American policies and attacks the notion of “consumer sovereignty”. For 10 points, name this book describing America’s wastefulness despite a wealth in private resources written by John Kenneth Galbraith.

The Affluent Society

David Hilbert asked if an integer x raised to the square root of y power, where y is an integer but not a perfect square, belongs to this subset of the real numbers; in that example, x does, but the square root of y doesn’t. They also include e and π. For 10 points—name this subset of real numbers which cannot be the solution of any polynomial equation with integer coefficients.

Transcendental numbers

In one novel by this author, Mary Scudder is loved by Dr. Hopkins. This author of Dred: A Story of the Great Dismal Swamp and The Minister's Wooing wrote about Topsy being educated in another work. A novel by this author includes Eva, who is saved by the title character. This author included a scene where Eliza jumps over ice floes on the Ohio River to reach freedom in that work. Simon Legree beats the title character of this author's bestseller to death. For 10 points, name this author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This poet claimed the title phenomena came from the depth of some divine despair in his “Tears, Idle Tears” and noted that “after many a summer dies the swan” in his poem about a mythical Greek condemned to eternal life, “Tithonus.” In another poem, the narrator hopes “to see my pilot face to face” and in another a restless king decides “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” For 10 points, name this author of “Crossing the Bar” and “Ulysses” who wrote of the “Noble Six Hundred” from the Crimean War in “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In one story by this man, Johannes Dahlmann reads his copy of the Arabian Nights and gets into a knife fight after almost dying in a hospital. This author wrote a story about the struggles of a man with a limitless memory. This author of “The South” and “Funes, the Memorious” wrote about the German spy Yu Tsun leaving a message through murder in another story. His story about a building with endless hexagonal rooms was collected in Ficciones. For 10 points, name this author of “The Garden of Forking Paths” and “The Library of Babel.”

Jorge Luis Borges

This character blames the imaginary magician Friston for the theft of his books, which were in reality burned by the priest Pedro Perez. Near the end of the work in which he appears, the fictional author Benengeli admits that his only purpose in writing about this character was to indicate the demise of chivalry. This character embarks on many adventures, including the theft of a barber’s basin that he thinks is Mambrino’s helmet and the destruction of windmills that this character mistakes for giants. On those adventures, he is accompanied by Rocinante and Sancho Panza. For 10 points, name this title “Ingenious Gentleman” from La Mancha in a novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

Don Quixote de la Mancha