Tossup

Robert Frost accused this author of writing too much about “bric-a-brac.” This author describes “Coffee and oranges in a sunny (10[1])chair” in a poem (10[1])that ends with pigeons descending “on extended wings.” A man riding “over Connecticut” fears “the shadow of his equipage” in a poem by this author of “Sunday Morning.” (10[3])This author asks why golden versions of the title figures are imagined by the “Thin men of Haddam” (10[1])in a poem that opens “Among twenty snowy mountains.” Another poem by this author commands the reader to “call the roller of big cigars.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this American poet of “Thirteen Ways of Looking (10[1]-5[1])at a Blackbird” and “The Emperor of Ice Cream.” ■END■

ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
<Nebraska C, American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Back to tossups