His most famous poem contains the image of a "darkling plain" where "ignorant armies clash by night.
In a poem by this author, "the autumnal evening darkens round" as the speaker heads toward the title location. That poem's speaker is "between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born." The speaker of another poem by this man painfully remembers a single elm tree, which reminds him of the title character. Another of this author's speakers highlights the insufficiency of "the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams," exclaiming "Ah, love, let us be true to one another!" He produced a pastoral elegy for his youthfully-departed friend Arthur Clough. His most famous poem contains the image of a "darkling plain" where "ignorant armies clash by night." For 10 points, name this British poet of "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse," "Thyrsis," and "Dover Beach."
In a poem by this author, "the autumnal evening darkens round" as the speaker heads toward the title location.
Matthew Arnold