Packet 9: Tossup 4

This author’s last poem breaks off on the fragmentary line “Happy those for whom the fold / Of…” and follows its speaker on a chariot as he meets the blinded spirit of Rousseau. One of this poet’s speakers recalls “While yet a boy I sought for ghosts and sped / Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin.” Edward Trelawny legendarily retrieved this poet’s unburnt heart from his funeral pyre. This author had to rewrite a poem that opens “The awful shadow of some unseen Power / Floats though unseen among us” when his mentor, Leigh (“Lee”) Hunt, lost the manuscript. This author implores “drive my dead thoughts over the universe” in a poem that asks (10[1])“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” For 10 points, what Romantic poet who drowned off the coast of Italy wrote “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” and “Ode to the West Wind?” ■END■

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