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Author and genre required. One of these poems states, “prithee do not stick / Thy latent talons in me” to a creature with “wheezy asthma.” The words “robins” and “sobbings” are rhymed at the end of one of these poems, which responds to a text misattributed to Chaucer. One of these poems, beginning “My spirit is too weak – mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,” was written after visting the British Museum. The speaker stands “on the shore / of the wide world” alone, as “love and fame to nothingness do sink” in one of these poems. The speaker of one of these poems feels like “some watcher of the skies” or “like stout Cortez” when reading a translation of Greek poetry. For 10 points, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” and “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” are what works by the author of “Ode to a Nightingale”? ■END■
ANSWER: sonnets by John Keats [prompt on sonnets by asking “By whom?”] (The three poems are “To Mrs. Reynolds’ Cat,” “Sonnet. Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale of The Floure And The Lefe,” and “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles.”)
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