This author “made death his ladder to the skies” in an elegy written by his friend Fulke Greville, who also wrote a biography of this author. The elegy “The Doleful Lay of Clorinda” was written for this man, whose niece wrote the prose romance Urania. This uncle of Mary Wroth created a speaker who laments how “words came halting forth, wanting invention’s stay” while trying to find “fit words to paint the blackest face of woe.” This author’s line “‘Fool,’ said my Muse to me, ‘look in thy heart, and write’” is from a series of 108 poems inspired by Penelope Devereux, whose 31st entry begins, “With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies.” For 10 points, the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is by what Elizabethan author of the romance Arcadia? ■END■ (0[5])