This author of "Low Barometer" and "Eros" claimed "Thou art alone, fond lover" in a poem remarking "The evening darkens over" and rebuked "Joy's wisdom is attired splended for others' eyes if not for thee" in "Melancholia."
In one poem this man asked "Why has thou nothing in thy face, thou idol of the human race?" and in another he described how "the packed pollution and remorse of Time... reenact the horrors of unhousehold crime." This author of "Low Barometer" and "Eros" claimed "Thou art alone, fond lover" in a poem remarking "The evening darkens over" and rebuked "Joy's wisdom is attired splended for others' eyes if not for thee" in "Melancholia." He divided verse into accentual-syllabic, accentual, syllabic, and quantitative varieties in a study of Milton's prosody and he was also responsible for posthumously publishing the poems of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins. he gained fame in his lifetime for a poem in four books beginning "Man's Reason is in such insolvency to sense." For 10 points, name this author of The Testament of Beauty.
In one poem this man asked "Why has thou nothing in thy face, thou idol of the human race?
{Robert Bridges}