He urged "Ah, love, (*) let us be true to one another!" in a poem that describes the "eternal note of sadness" which Sophocles heard on the Aegean.
This author criticized the pedantic vocabulary and ballad-like meter used in F.W. Newman's version of the Iliad in his On Translating Homer. The title character of one of his poems asserts that it's "better to be a serf" than to "be a crown'd king here, and rule the dead" during a visit from Hermod. Another poem by this author of "Balder Dead" tells of a "sweet city with her dreaming spires" which "needs not June for beauty's heightening" and laments "The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I!" He urged "Ah, love, (*) let us be true to one another!" in a poem that describes the "eternal note of sadness" which Sophocles heard on the Aegean. This author of a monody for Arthur Hugh Clough described a "darkling plain" where "ignorant armies clash by night" in that poem, which opens "The sea is calm tonight". For 10 points, name this English poet of "Thyrsis" and "Dover Beach".
This author criticized the pedantic vocabulary and ballad-like meter used in F.W. Newman's version of the Iliad in his On Translating Homer.
Matthew "marnold" Arnold