Round 9: Tossup 14

In a poem by this author, two enemies make a fire with their “feeble breath” before recognizing each other and dying “of their mutual hideousness.” This author described how “the stars / Did wander darkling in the eternal space” in a poem that begins “I had a dream, which was not all a dream.” Another poem by this author relates how “there lay the steed with his nostril all wide” as “the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf.” The (*) “year without a summer” inspired this author’s apocalyptic poem “Darkness.” This poet (10[1])compared an army’s spears to “stars on the sea” to describe a battle where “the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.” That poem by this author begins “The Assyrian (10[1])came down (10[1])like the wolf on the fold.” For 10 points, what poet of “The Destruction of Sennacherib” wrote “She Walks in Beauty”? ■END■

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