Â That work ends with the speaker's own epitaph and begins, "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.
This man described a journey down "to Hela's drear abode" in the aftermath of Baldr's death in the poem "The Descent of Odin: An Ode." Another work by this poet is addressed to "Daughter of Jove, relentless power" and asks it to teach the speaker "to scan, what others are, to feel, and know myself a man," while another poem depicts the "distant spires" and "antique towers" of a place "where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy Shade." This poet of "Ode to Adversity" is best known for a work that imagines "some (*) Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood" or "some mute inglorious Milton" buried in the title location. Â That work ends with the speaker's own epitaph and begins, "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." For 10 points, name this English poet of "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
This man described a journey down "to Hela's drear abode" in the aftermath of Baldr's death in the poem "The Descent of Odin: An Ode."
Thomas Gray