Question
A speaker with this occupation promises his love interest “Fair lined slippers for the cold, With Buckles of the purest gold.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this occupation. In a poem later parodied by Walter Raleigh, a speaker with this occupation opens with the line “Come live with me and be my love.”
ANSWER: shepherd [accept “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love”]
[10e] Edmund Spenser’s twelve-part poem The Shepheardes Calender echoed the Eclogues of this Latin author, who also wrote the Aeneid.
ANSWER: Virgil [or Publius Vergilius Maro]
[10h] This author depicted Dorus, who disguises himself as a shepherd to woo Pamela, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. This author described the moon’s “sad steps” in a 31st poem of a sonnet sequence.
ANSWER: Philip Sidney (The unnamed poem is from Astrophil and Stella.)
<Michael Bentley, Literature - British - Poetry> ~22200~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 16.67 | 100% | 53% | 14% |