This poet hoped for “more sincerely bright” worship after the evangelists had “evanished” in an epithalamion celebrating the biblical criticism of D. F. Strauss. In Eminent Victorians, this poet cameos as a star pupil at Rugby and gets worked to death by Florence Nightingale with chores like tying up brown paper parcels. This British poet inspired Asimov’s First Law of Robotics by writing, “Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive / Officiously to keep alive” in “The Latest Decalogue.” This poet wrote, (*) “westward, look, the land is bright!” in “Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth.” This poet is the subject of a poem that recalls visits to a “signal-elm” and tells this poet, “Time, not Corydon, hath conquer’d thee!” in a “monody” set under Oxford’s “dreaming spires.” For 10 points, name this poet memorialized in Matthew Arnold’s “Thyrsis.” ■END■
ANSWER: Arthur Hugh Clough [prompt on “Thyrsis”] (The poem in the first sentence is “Epi-strauss-ium.”)
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