Question
Visitors were greeted by burned and destroyed books at a 2011 exhibition titled for this phrase by Victoria Noorthoorn. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this five-word phrase that ends the refrain of a poem that claims wearing green is “changed, changed utterly” by the deaths of men “met at the close of day.”
ANSWER: “a terrible beauty is born”
[10e] Noorthoorn took the title of A Terrible Beauty is Born from “Easter, 1916,” a poem by this Irish author of the poem “The Second Coming.”
ANSWER: W. B. Yeats (“YATES”) [or William Butler Yeats]
[10m] Noorthorn’s exhibition also highlighted epigrams of this author, such as “The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.” This author mused “each man kills the thing he loves” in a poem titled for where he was imprisoned.
ANSWER: Oscar Wilde [or Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde] (The first quote is from The Picture of Dorian Gray. The second is from “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.”)
<Ganon Evans, Literature - British - Other> ~28179~ <Editor: Alan Smithee>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 19.44 | 94% | 86% | 14% |