Question
This poet told monarchs “that neither flattery nor halters / Make sturdy barricades for you” in a poem in which he claims “the people joyous, their freedom vernal / Will forever save the nation's crown.” The prologue of a poem by this author describes a “learned cat” bound by a “golden chain” to a “green oak.” It’s not Percy Shelley, but this poet’s exile was blamed on his “Ode to Liberty.” In a long poem by this author, a hill turns out to be the massive head of the brother of the wizard (*) Chernomor. In a poem by this author, the protagonist survives a storm by sitting on a marble lion. A 14-line stanza with “masculine” and “feminine” rhymes is named after a work by this poet whose protagonist falls in love with Tatyana after killing Lensky in a duel. For 10 points, name this author of Ruslan and Lyudmila, The Bronze Horseman, and Eugene Onegin. ■END■
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