Don Carlos, Bartolome Roman, and the count of Lara are characters in his play The Spanish Student, while Paul Flemming's journeys in Germany make up this man's novel Hyperion.  
Don Carlos, Bartolome Roman, and the count of Lara are characters in his play The Spanish Student, while Paul Flemming's journeys in Germany make up this man's novel Hyperion.  One poem by this man focuses on "a youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, a banner with the strange device", and another begins by pleading, "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!"  This author of "Excelsior" and "A Psalm of Life" wrote a narrative work in which the title character accepts a challenge by Thor "to avenge his father slain, and reconquer realm and reign", and another work which ends with the lines, "Christ save us all from a death like this, on the reef of Norman's Woe!"  For 10 points—name this author of "The Saga of King Olaf" and "The Wreck of the Hesperus", who also wrote about "the shores of Gitche Gumee" in his "Song of Hiawatha".
Don Carlos, Bartolome Roman, and the count of Lara are characters in his play The Spanish Student, while Paul Flemming's journeys in Germany make up this man's novel Hyperion.  
Henry Wadsworth {Longfellow} [accept The {Spanish Student} before “his {play}”]