"Wyndham Towers" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich is a story written in verse. Aldrich's method, when recasting the poem, was more or less influenced by the poets he had been studying—chiefly the dramatists of the Elizabethan era. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. Through his expertise in literature, he was able to weave a compelling tale using one of the most notoriously difficult mediums, poetry.