In Melville's Billy Budd, Captain Vere takes his nickname "Starry" from this author's poem "Upon Appleton House." He wrote that "the Irish are ashamed / to see themselves in one year tamed" in a "Horatian Ode." This poet also wrote a series of poems about a figure "against Gardens" and "to the Gloww
In Melville's Billy Budd, Captain Vere takes his nickname "Starry" from this author's poem "Upon Appleton House." He wrote that "the Irish are ashamed / to see themselves in one year tamed" in a "Horatian Ode." This poet also wrote a series of poems about a figure "against Gardens" and "to the Glowworms." This author of "The Mower" is most famous for a narrator who discusses his "vegetable love" growing until "the conversion of the Jews," but regrets "Time's winged chariot hurrying near." For 10 points, name this British poet who penned the lines "Had we but world enough and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime" in "To His Coy Mistress."
In Melville's Billy Budd, Captain Vere takes his nickname "Starry" from this author's poem "Upon Appleton House."
Andrew Marvell