Round 8: Tossup 13

In a poem partly titled for this place, the speaker “pleaded, outlaw-wise” and traveled “across the margent of the world” before being told, “naught shelters thee, who wilt not shelter me.” The speaker says of a creature from this place that “I fled him down the nights and down the days” in that poem, the most famous work by Francis Thompson. This place is mentioned immediately following the line “ah, but a man’s (*) reach should exceed his grasp” in Andrea del Sarto. The stars are said to have thrown “down their spears” and watered this place “with their tears” in the penultimate stanza of “The Tyger.” A figure is said to be “in his” this place before the line “All’s right with the world!” in “Pippa Passes.” For 10 points, name this first title place of a William Blake (10[1])book titled for its “Marriage” to its opposite. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: heaven (Francis Thompson’s poem is “The Hound of Heaven.”)
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%0%25%86.75
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/20262100%0%0%142.50
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/20264100%0%0%95.25
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/20263100%0%0%102.67
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20255100%40%20%102.60
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20255100%20%0%93.00
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/20253100%0%0%90.67
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20254100%25%25%104.25
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%17%0%88.67
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/20255100%20%0%99.80
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/20252100%0%50%113.00