Round 11: Tossup 1

The speaker of a poem by this author wonders if one of its title characters “put on his knowledge with his power / Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?”. “Once out of nature,” the speaker of a poem by this author vows to take “such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make.” “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” in a poem by this author whose speaker sees (*) “a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi.” This author of “Leda and the Swan” wrote that “An aged man is but a paltry thing” in a poem that opens “That is no country for old men.” For 10 points, “Sailing to Byzantium” (10[1])and “The Second Coming” are by what Irish poet? ■END■

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