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In American Renaissance, Peter Matthiesen formats prose passages from this novel as blank verse to show its rhythmic debt to Shakespeare. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this novel whose verse passages include a hymn read by the New Bedford preacher Father Mapple.
ANSWER: Moby-Dick [or Moby-Dick; or, The Whale] (by Herman Melville)
[10m] In Call Me Ishmael, this poet argued that reading Shakespeare led Melville to rework Moby-Dick as a tragedy of democracy. This Black Mountain School poet wrote the manifesto “Projective Verse” and The Maximus Poems.
ANSWER: Charles Olson [or Charles John Olson]
[10h] A Melville review claims that Shakespeare’s sense of “blackness” is also present in Nathaniel Hawthorne, who may be the subject of a Melville poem titled for this style. In “At Melville’s Tomb,” Hart Crane wrote that this style “shall not wake the mariner.”
ANSWER: monody (Hawthorne may be eulogized in Melville’s “Monody.” The review is “Hawthorne and his Mosses.”)
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BruinOhio State1010020EM
Chicago AUC Berkeley B0101020MH
CornellBrown1001020EH
Georgia Tech BVirginia1001020EH
HarvardStanford A100010E
Illinois APittsburgh1010020EM
Illinois BUCF1001020EH
Johns HopkinsNYU B100010E
MITUCLA100010E
MichiganRutgers100010E
MinnesotaCambridge100010E
NYU AMaryland A1010020EM
North CarolinaMaryland B1010020EM
Northwestern AColumbia A1010020EM
Northwestern BGeorgetown100010E
Penn StateColumbia B10101030EMH
Stanford BGeorgia Tech A1001020EH
SwarthmoreChicago B100010E
Toronto BTexas1010020EM
UC Berkeley AToronto A10101030EMH
VanderbiltWashU100010E
Virginia TechIndiana100010E
WaterlooPurdue0101020MH

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