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% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn State | Rochester | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| RIT | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
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% |