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.
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.
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.
Gérard de Nerval [or Gérard Labrunie]