His other Pindaric ode was "The Progress of Poesy," and one of his poems contains the line "Presumptuous maid!
Wordsworth singled out this man's poem, "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West" to exemplify what he disliked most about poetry at the time. In addition to writing such poems as "The Fatal Sister," and "The Triumphs of Owen," this man wrote of a Welsh bard cursing Edward I and prophesizing the downfall of the Plantagenets in "The Bard." His other Pindaric ode was "The Progress of Poesy," and one of his poems contains the line "Presumptuous maid! With looks intent/Again she stretched, again she bent." Another of his poems begins "Ye distant spires, ye antique towers" and contains line "where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise." In addition to "Ode of a Distant Prospect of Eton College," this poet is responsible for the lines "some mute inglorious Milton" and "far from the madding crowd." FTP, name this man, author of "Ode of the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" and "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
Wordsworth singled out this man's poem, "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West" to exemplify what he disliked most about poetry at the time.
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