Round 100: Tossup 13

The speaker of a poem by this author says he will walk “alone, unknown, my back curved, my hands crossed, / Sorrowed, and the day for me will be like the night.” A phrase from Virgil’s Eclogues titles Pauca Meae, the fourth of six books in a collection by this poet divided into the sections “once” and “today.” A poem by this author, whose speaker resolves to “place on your tomb / A bouquet of green holly (15[1])and flowering heather,” is written in (*) alexandrins ternaires (“ah-lex-awn-DRAHN ter-NAIR”). This author’s collection Les Contemplations includes the poem “Tomorrow, At Dawn,” which mourns the drowning of his daughter (10[1])Léopoldine. (10[1])In a novel by this author, a jilted factory worker is dismissed and forced (10[1])to sell her hair and teeth to support her daughter. (-5[1])For 10 points, what author wrote about Fantine and Cosette in Les Misérables? ■END■ (10[1])

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