For ten points, name this author of Thyrsis who noted a darkling plain, "where ignorant armies clash by night," in a poem that begins "The sea is calm to-night," Dover Beach.
This author described the title phenomenon as "When we are frozen up within," and "tis not to see the world," in his poem "Growing Old." Another poem shows the title figure "putting his sickle to the perilous grain in the hot cornfield of the Phrygian king," and says "Here came I often, often, in old days --," the title figure "and I." This man also wrote a poem that imagines the world, "to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new," and that poem uses Sophocles, because "he heard it on the Aegean." This author also used the phrase "pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling," in that work. For ten points, name this author of Thyrsis who noted a darkling plain, "where ignorant armies clash by night," in a poem that begins "The sea is calm to-night," Dover Beach.
This author described the title phenomenon as "When we are frozen up within," and "tis not to see the world," in his poem "Growing Old."
Matthew {Arnold}