Packet 1: Bonus 1
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.”)
<Editors, American Literature> | J. Playoffs 1 (Editors 1)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 16.67 | 88% | 46% | 33% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Bruin | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | MH |
| Cornell | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Georgia Tech B | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Harvard | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Pittsburgh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois B | UCF | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Johns Hopkins | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | UCLA | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Cambridge | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| North Carolina | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern B | Georgetown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Stanford B | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Swarthmore | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Vanderbilt | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | MH |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 16.67 | 88% | 46% | 33% |