Summer Pleasures

1 Which is the odd one out?

2 In these lines from Lord Byron's poem Don Juan, who or what is "them"?
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set!

3 Which fragment (X, Y, Z) completes and situates which quote (A, B, C)?
A
In summertime [___]
The bells they sound so clear.
B
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by [___].
C
I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim in bladders,
This many summers in [___].

X "a sea of glory".
Y "haunted stream".
Z "on Bredon".

4 Match title and author:
a The Long, Hot Summer
b The Dangerous Summer
c The Greengage Summer
d The Boys of Summer

1 Rumer Godden
2 Roger Kahn
3 Ernest Hemingway
4 William Faulkner

5 Shakespeare and summer
We all know "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" but can you identify the speakers and sources of these lines?

A. "On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily."

B. "Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days."

C. "The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die."

6 Which 20th-century author goes with which earlier quotation?

A. "’Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden"
John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
B. "And summer's lease hath all too short a date"
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 94
C. "And after many a summer dies the swan"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Tithonus" (1860)

1. Aldous Huxley
2. Margaret Drabble
3. John Mortimer
4. Virginia Woolf