Round 10: Tossup 16

This title person writes to his brother “I have things to do, all in my own way” in a Brendan Kennelly collection structured as a nightmare. A poet’s only rhyming end couplet for a sonnet tells this person “Help us to save free conscience from the paw / of hireling wolves.” The speaker remarks “’Tis time to leave the books in dust” in a poem in which this person is said to have “urged his active star.” A poet apologized for mourning this person in the Heroic Stanzas (-5[1])in his later poem (-5[1])Astraea Redux. (10[2])This person (-5[1])is compared to “three-fork’d (10[1])lightning” (10[10])in a (10[1])poem (10[1])that, (10[1])despite its title, (10[1])takes a Pindaric (10[1])public subject. This “restless” person “could not cease / In the (-5[1])inglorious (-5[1])arts of peace” in that “Horatian Ode” by Andrew Marvell. For 10 points, name this leader (10[1])opposed by the Cavalier poets during the English (10[1])Civil War. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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