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In a poem titled for this place, the speaker obliquely references the then-recent libel trial of Giacinto Achilli by chiding those who “contend and cry no more.” The speaker beholds this place and notes that “there / rested within an awful solitude” in Book VI of The Prelude. After passing “limestone scars with ragged pines,” a guide cries out “Strike leftward!” to direct the speaker to this place, (15[1])whose “pointed (15[1])roofs” prompt him to ponder (-5[1])whether it’s “a palace of the Kings of (*) France.” As he explores this place, the speaker imagines his past (-5[1])“robust teachers” whispering, “What dost thou in this living tomb?” A poet drew (-5[1])on the night he spent in this place with his bride Frances Wightman to label modernity and (-5[1])religion as “two worlds, one dead, the (-5[1])other (10[1])powerless to be born.” For 10 points, what Carthusian monastery inspired a melancholic set (10[1])of “Stanzas” written by Matthew Arnold? ■END■ (10[2]0[10])

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