text: In an alleged travelogue by this author, he is shocked by locals who find enjoyment by watching an elephant get aroused, and purchases a Javanese slave named Zetnaybia who ends up bossing him around.
full_question: In an alleged travelogue by this author, he is shocked by locals who find enjoyment by watching an elephant get aroused, and purchases a Javanese slave named Zetnaybia who ends up bossing him around. This author of Voyage to the Orient wrote a novel whose protagonist loses the love of Aurelie and the title character because of his obsession with Adrienne. The speaker of a poem by this man describes "plucking from Orpheus' lyre one by one / the saintly sighs and the faerie cries" and asks "Am I Phoebus or Love?...Biron or Lusignan?" Eliot's "The Waste Land" quotes a line by this man about "the Prince of Aquitaine in the ruined tower," which comes from a poem that opens "I am the dark one, the widower, the unconsoled." For 10 points name this French author of Sylvie and "El Desdichado," who owned a pet lobster.
first_sentence: In an alleged travelogue by this author, he is shocked by locals who find enjoyment by watching an elephant get aroused, and purchases a Javanese slave named Zetnaybia who ends up bossing him around.
raw_answer: Gérard de Nerval [or Gérard Labrunie]