TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
PROBLEM: This man wrote about a creature that "launch'd forth filament, filament, filament" in a poem about a "noiseless patient spider." He wrote "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!" in his "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." He published a "deathbed edition" of his continually revised masterpiece, which includes a poem beginning "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." For 10 points, name this American poet who included "Song of Myself" in his Leaves of Grass.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: A virtuoso violinist from this country composed a series of Gypsy Melodies for Violin and Piano titled Zigeunerweisen and also authored a Fantasy on Carmen. One nationalist composer from this country created the operas Follet and Liliana early in the 20th century and another one about a man who returns from Algeria that's often compared to Cavalleria rusticana. Another work from this country features a second movement that has a melody introduced by English horn. One of the most famous composers from here composed a ballet featuring the "Dance of the Miller's Wife". The songs "The Pan Piper" and "Will O' the Wisp" appear on a jazz album titled for this place by Miles Davis. The birthplace of the composer of The Three-Cornered Hat, for 10 points, name this country home to the composer of Concierto de Aranjuez and Manuel de Falla.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: The state funeral of Napoleon prompted his painting War: The Exile and the Rock Limpet. The following year he painted the popular The Opening of the Wallhalla and two didactic works on the "evening" and the "morning after" a "Deluge," which were supposed to illustrate Goethe's theory of color. Later in the 1840s he painted Queen Mab's Cave, The Angel Standing in the Sun, and a work which depicts the Great Western Railway. He raised a ruckus in 1840 with a painting which shows a typhoon coming on as the dead and dying are thrown overboard by slavers, a work known as The Slave Ship. FTP, name this English painter beloved of Ruskin, whose works include Rain, Steam and Speed and The Fighting Temeraire.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts