Packet 5: Tossup 1

This poet warned that “corruption, dark and deep … saps the foundation of a sinking state” in a poem lambasting a piece of Jeffersonian legislation. (15[1]-5[1])This poet wishes that “Hope, blossoming (15[1])in my heart (15[1])/ May look to heaven as I depart” (-5[1])in a poem addressed to a “Fringed (-5[1])Gentian.” (15[4])A poem (-5[1])by (-5[1])this author (0[1])describes a “quarry-slave at night” (15[1])and (15[1])one who (15[3])“lies down to pleasant (15[2])dreams” (15[2])after declaring (*) “pierce the Barcan wilderness.” (10[2])That poem (10[1])opens (10[1])by claiming that Nature (10[1])has a “healing sympathy” (-5[1])for “him who in the love of [her] holds (-5[1])Communion with her visible forms.” For 10 points, name this author of “Thanatopsis.” (10[2])■END■ (10[9])

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