Packet 3: Bonus 19
C. S. Lewis cautioned against reading this poem “like a detective story” in The Allegory of Love, which highlights the subtle complexity of spaces like the Bower of Bliss and Garden of Adonis. For 10 points each:
[10m] What poem originated a stanza form of eight rhyming iambic pentameter lines, followed by an alexandrine?
ANSWER: The Faerie Queene (by Edmund Spenser)
[10h] In his letter to Walter Raleigh, Spenser calls The Faerie Queene’s allegory this kind of “conceit.” Orlando Reade’s 2024 book on the reception of Paradise Lost is titled for Milton’s phrase “what in me is” this adjective.
ANSWER: dark [accept dark conceit; accept What In Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost]
[10e] This friend of Spenser wrote that poetry’s mysteries “of purpose were written darkly” in The Defense of Poesy. This courtier’s own poetry includes The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella.
ANSWER: Sir Philip Sidney
<Cambridge, British Literature> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| NYU A | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |