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 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 came down like the wolf on the fold.” For 10 points, what poet of “The Destruction of Sennacherib” wrote “She Walks (10[1])in Beauty”? ■END■ (10[1])

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