This poet described a figure who once sat with his lover "On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea" in a poem that repeatedly includes the question "Children dear, was it yesterday?
This poet described a figure who once sat with his lover "On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea" in a poem that repeatedly includes the question "Children dear, was it yesterday?" The speaker of one of this man's poems recalls seeing a girl and some mowers on a skiff journey through Wytham flats before lamenting "They are all gone, and thou art gone as well!" A poem by this man is based on a tale from Joseph Glanvill and tells of a man who (*) "roam'd the world with that wild brotherhood" after dropping out of Oxford to pursue divine knowledge. This man described a figure who "Time, not Corydon, hath conquered" in an elegy for his friend Arthur Hugh Clough and wrote a poem set "where ignorant armies clash by night." For 10 points, name this British poet of "The Scholar Gipsy," "Thyrsis," and "Dover Beach."
This poet described a figure who once sat with his lover "On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea" in a poem that repeatedly includes the question "Children dear, was it yesterday?
Matthew Arnold