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The observation that “they have taken the plants away” from the tomb of an American Symbolist poet with this surname begins a poem from John Ashbery’s collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. In one poem, a poet with this surname described a “World that shifts like sand” whose “Potentate had lacked a retinue” right before the speaker exclaims, “Lo! it assembles on the shrinking Green.” In that poem by an author (-5[1])with this surname, the speaker remarks, “Quite a task, / Putting together Heaven, yet we do.” That poet with this surname wrote the collection (10[1])Divine Comedies, (-5[1])which (-5[1])contains (10[1])a poem (10[1])whose speaker (10[1])has a French governess he calls “Mademoiselle” (10[3])who helps him complete a jigsaw puzzle. (10[2]-5[2])For (10[1])10 points, give (10[1])this surname of the (-5[1])American poet of “Lost in Translation” (10[2])and The Changing Light at Sandover. ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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