Packet 9: Bonus 12

In a monologue by Elizabeth Barret Browning, this dying poet’s lover Catarina recalls his verse “Sweetest eyes were ever seen!” For 10 points each:
[10e] The title Sonnets from the Portuguese references Barrett Browning’s fondness for what poet of The Lusiads?
ANSWER: Luís de Camões (“kah-MOISH”) [or Luis Vaz de Camoëns; accept “Catarina to Camoens”]
[10m] Camões’s obscurity at his death was highlighted by L. E. L., a poet once known as the female version of this author. This poet called Camões a “genuine bard” in his Hours of Idleness and attacked Strangford’s translations in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon, Lord Byron] (L. E. L., or Letitia Elizabeth Landon, was known as the “female Byron” and wrote “The Death of Camoens” in Subjects for Pictures.)
[10h] Felicia Hemans wrote a set of Translations from Camoens, but is best remembered for opening her much-recited naval poem “Casabianca” with this seven-word line.
ANSWER: “The boy stood on the burning deck”
<Editors, British Literature> | R. Playoffs 9 (Editors 9)

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British ColumbiaWashU100010E
BrownIllinois B100010E
Chicago AColumbia A1001020EH
Chicago BNorth Carolina0000
GeorgetownUCF100010E
Georgia Tech ARutgers0000
Georgia Tech BStanford B1001020EH
Georgia Tech CIllinois A100010E
IndianaHarvard100010E
Maryland AVirginia Tech1010020EM
MichiganJohns Hopkins1001020EH
MinnesotaVanderbilt1001020EH
NYU BPenn State010010M
Northwestern ANYU A100010E
Northwestern BMaryland B0101020MH
Ohio StateColumbia B100010E
PittsburghUCLA100010E
PurdueCornell100010E
TexasMIT100010E
Toronto AUC Berkeley B100010E
Toronto BCambridge100010E
UC Berkeley AStanford A10101030EMH
VirginiaBruin100010E
WaterlooSwarthmore1010020EM

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