Round 3: Tossup 7

One poem by this author tells its reader to “Follow where all is fled! – Rome’s azure sky.” This author, who began one poem by describing “The awful shadow of some unseen Power,” compared the title subject of another work to a “glow-worm golden / In a dell of dew.” This author of “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.” addressed a (*) “Destroyer and Preserver” in a work ending with the question “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” This (10[1])poet greets the title bird of one work with the line “Hail to thee, (10[1])blithe Spirit!” (10[1])For 10 points, name this British poet who elegised John Keats in “Adonais” and wrote “Ode to the West Wind” and “To a Skylark.” ■END■

ANSWER: Percy Shelley [or Percy Bysshe Shelley]
<Literature - British, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 03
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TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓6100%0%50%89.83
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓333%0%33%70.00
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓3100%0%0%87.00
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓425%0%100%118.00
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓560%0%20%87.33
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓367%0%0%96.50
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓425%25%50%43.00
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓4100%25%0%71.00
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓5100%20%0%75.00
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓888%50%38%67.00