The life of Ferdinand Laysalle inspired this author's novel about Alvan and Julia, The Tragic Comedians.
The life of Ferdinand Laysalle inspired this author's novel about Alvan and Julia, The Tragic Comedians. One of this man's poems ends, "we drop like the fruits of the tree, / Even we, / Even so;" another ends with the image of "The army of unalterable law." In addition to "Dirge in Woods" and "Lucifer in Starlight," he wrote "By this he knew she wept with waking eyes" as the first of 50 16-line sonnets chronicling a failed relationship. One of his novels sees the title character elope with Lucy Desborough, and another sees the title character marry Laetitia Dale after losing the love of Clara Middleton. It was his unhappy first marriage that inspired his sonnet sequence Modern Love. FTP, name this author of The Ordeal of Richard Feverel who wrote about Sir Willoughby Patterne in The Egoist.
The life of Ferdinand Laysalle inspired this author's novel about Alvan and Julia, The Tragic Comedians.
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