Packet 15: Bonus 1
The speaker of this dramatic monologue, which was written a year after its author entered the Church of England, asks “were we led all that way for / Birth or Death?” For 10 points each:
[10m] What poem from Faber & Faber’s seasonal Ariel pamphlets follows three travelers who are “no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation / With an alien people clutching their gods”?
ANSWER: “The Journey of the Magi”
[10e] This author wrote Christmas poems like “The Journey of the Magi” and “A Song for Simeon” for the illustrated Ariel series. This writer’s conversion to Anglicanism informed his poem “Ash Wednesday.”
ANSWER: T. S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot]
[10h] Eliot adored this bishop’s prose and took the lines “A cold coming we had of it / Just the worst time of the year” from one of his Nativity sermons. This author of Private Prayers oversaw the KJV translation up to 2 Kings.
ANSWER: Lancelot Andrewes
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-Extras
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |