A poem by this man opens with a French epigraph comparing countries to pages of a book, all of which he has found to be equally bad.
A poem by this man opens with a French epigraph comparing countries to pages of a book, all of which he has found to be equally bad. This poet described a man recalling "his young barbarians all at play" as "the arena swims around him" in an ekphrasis on The Dying Gaul. A poem by this man declares that the title event will occur because "the sword outwears its sheath" and "the heart must pause to breathe". He dedicated two cantos "To Ianthe" of a four-canto poem whose title indicates that its autobiographical hero is not yet a knight. This poet of "So we'll go no more a-roving" viciously attacked Bob Southey in the opening of his unfinished satiric epic about an easily-seduced Spaniard. For 10 points, name this English poet of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan (JOO-in).
A poem by this man opens with a French epigraph comparing countries to pages of a book, all of which he has found to be equally bad.
Lord Byron [or George Gordon Byron