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1. Which English poet was - according to which other English poet - of which mythological creature's party without knowing it? (3 points)
- Blake talking of Milton - Shayne Parkinson - (But of whose party was Milton?)

2. What is "but a sleep and a forgetting", and according to which poet? And what is the title of the poem? (3 points)
- Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting according to Wordsworth - Shayne Parkinson. The title of the poem is "Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" - Bookpossum


3. "Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, / Though winning near the goal..." Why can't the poor guy even get to first base? And which poet put him in that position? (2 points)
- Because he's on a Greek vase, put there by John Keats in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn" - Bookpossum

4. "I am the daughter of earth and water, / And the nursling of the sky..." Who says that in a poem by which author? (2 points)
- A cloud says that in Shelley's great poem "The Cloud" (one of his best, in my humble opinion) - Shayne Parkinson

5. How many birds at Coole? And which sort of bird? And which poet put them there? (3 points)
- Wild swans, W.B. Yeats - Bookpossum (Number of birds still open)

6. Mourned lover loses an "e" and turns into a fabric softener. Which colour is the bird? (2 points: one each for the woman's name and the colour of the bird)
- The bird's colour is black. - orlok, the woman's name is Lenore - pdurrant.

7. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is the title of an Agatha Christie novel. Which poem by which poet is quoted in the title? (2 points)
- The Lady of Shalott - pdurrant. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Bookpossum


It's a tie now between Bookpossum and Shayne Parkinson (6 points each). pdurrant has 2 points and orlok has 1 point.

2 points are still up for grabs:

Whose party was Milton of, according to Blake?
How many wild swans are there at Coole?