Round 12: Tossup 20

A poem by this author claims, “There is one story and one story only.” This author wrote “All saints revile her, and all sober men” in a poem about a figure that Randell Jarrell called “Mother-Mistress-Muse.” This poet of “To Juan at the Winter Solstice” made a 1967 translation of the Rubaiyat based on a forgery by Ali-Shah. This author, who wrote much love poetry to Beryl Hodge, lived with the poet Laura Riding while struggling with (*) shell shock. Edmund Blunden and Siegfried Sassoon unfriended this poet after he published a memoir about his time as a captain (-5[1])in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. A “Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth” by this author claims (10[1])that all true poetry derives from the ancient worship of a Celtic moon deity. For 10 points, what author wrote Good-Bye to All That, The White Goddess, and I, Claudius? ■END■

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