Question
John Woodbridge published a collection potentially without this author’s knowledge that includes a poem addressed to a “dear Mother, fairest Queen.” This author described how the “strong foundation of proud Babel” supported the Assyrian empire in the first section of the long poem “The Four Monarchies.” This author bids adieu to all vanity in a poem describing how “My pleasant things in (*) ashes lie.” Love is valued over “whole mines of gold” and “all the riches the East doth hold” in a poem this author opened “if ever two were one, then surely we” and addressed to her “Dear and Loving Husband.” For 10 points, name this colonial poet of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. ■END■
ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet [or Anne Dudley Bradstreet; prompt on Anne Dudley] (The first poem is “A Dialogue between Old England and New.”)
<Ganon Evans, Literature - American - Poetry> ~28435~ <Editor: Chandler West>
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 34 | 100% | 35% | 0% | 72.18 |