This place is called a metaphor for art’s “Scene of Instruction” in a chapter that argues that the “poet-as-hero” triumphs at this place by failing just as his precursors, especially Shelley, failed. That chapter in Harold Bloom’s A Map of Misreading quotes a description of this place that “burningly” came upon the speaker “all at once.” A poem begins with the speaker questioning a description of an “ominous tract” containing this location given to the speaker by a “hoary cripple.” A quest for this “round squat” structure, which is “without a counterpart in the whole world,” is the subject of a poem from the collection Men and Women. A man blows his “slug-horn” after reaching this place in that poem titled for a nonsense line spoken by “Tom O’Bedlam” in King Lear. For 10 points, what mysterious place appears in the title of a poem by Robert Browning about the journey of Childe Roland? ■END■
ANSWER: the Dark Tower [accept “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”; prompt on Tower]
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