T. S. Eliot - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet C: Bonus 17

This critic claimed a poet’s mind is a “receptacle” that stores feeling, phrases, and images to form a new compound in his “Impersonal theory of poetry.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this critic who argued that an artist’s progress is a “continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.” This critic edited The Criterion and was one of the first directors at Faber & Faber.

ANSWER: T. S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot]

[10h] Eliot included his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” in this collection. This collection also includes Eliot’s thoughts on literary criticism in essays such as “The Perfect Critic” and “The French Intelligence.”

ANSWER: The Sacred Wood [or The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism]

[10e] In an essay in The Sacred Wood, T. S. Eliot critiques this Shakespeare play for poorly handling the feeling of a son toward a guilty mother and the “unexplained” scenes involving Polonius, Laertes, and Reynaldo.

ANSWER: Hamlet [or The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark] (The essay is “Hamlet and His Problems.”)

<JK, British Literature> | Packet C - Virginia Tech A, Waterloo A, UCSD A, UBC A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
54	13.52	96%	22%	17%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	0	0	10	10	E
CWRU A	Ohio State A	10	0	10	20	ME
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	0	10	20	ME
Cambridge B	UCL	0	0	10	10	E
Carleton University	Toronto G	0	0	10	10	E
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10	E
Chicago A	Purdue B	0	0	10	10	E
Chicago C	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10	E
Columbia A	Vassar	0	10	10	20	HE
Columbia C	Maryland A	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech A	Claremont	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	0	0	10	10	E
Georgia Tech D	Bruin	0	0	10	10	E
Harvard A	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10	E
Harvard B	Brown	0	0	10	10	E
Illinois A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20	HE
Illinois B	Illinois C	0	0	10	10	E
Imperial A	Durham	0	0	10	10	E
Indiana A	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20	HE
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	0	0	10	10	E
Kentucky	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10	E
MIT	Southern Connecticut State	10	10	10	30	MHE
Manchester	Montpellier	0	0	10	10	E
Maryland B	John Jay	10	0	10	20	ME
McGill A	Brock	0	0	10	10	E
Michigan A	CWRU B	10	10	10	30	MHE
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10	E
Michigan C	Michigan State	0	0	10	10	E
Mississipi State	Tennessee B	0	0	0	0
Missouri A	Carleton College	0	0	10	10	E
NYU A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30	MHE
Notre Dame A	Indiana B	0	0	10	10	E
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10	E
Ottawa	McMaster B	10	0	10	20	ME
Oxford A	Bristol	0	0	10	10	E
Oxford C	Edinburgh A	0	0	0	0
Penn State	Rochester	0	10	10	20	HE
Purdue A	Chicago B	0	0	10	10	E
Queen's	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10	E
RIT	Cornell B	10	0	10	20	ME
Southampton A	Cardiff	0	0	10	10	E
Stanford A	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10	E
Stanford B	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10	E
Swarthmore	NYU C	0	0	10	10	E
Texas A	Murray State A	0	0	10	10	E
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10	E
Toronto B	Toronto E	10	10	10	30	MHE
UBC B	Toronto C	10	0	10	20	ME
Warwick A	Birmingham	10	0	10	20	ME
WashU A	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10	E
Washington A	Missouri B	0	0	10	10	E
Waterloo B	McGill B	0	0	10	10	E
Yale	Brandeis A	10	10	10	30	MHE

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Canada	Main Site	✓	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
Florida	Main Site	✓	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	7	12.86	100%	0%	29%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
UK	Main Site	✓	8	11.25	88%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%