Question

In one poem, this author is described as “who nightlong curses / Wounds imagined more than seen.” This author, who used the line “But thine arithmetic is quite correct” in his parody (-5[1])“Fragment of a Greek (-5[1])Tragedy,” meets the ghosts of Pater and Oscar Wilde in the play (10[1])The Invention of (10[1])Love. (10[3])The (10[1])speaker (10[1]-5[1])says (10[1])“Eyes (10[1])the shady night has shut / Cannot (10[1])see (10[1])the record cut” in a poem (10[1])by this author whose title character is told to “hold to the low lintel up / The still-defended challenge-cup.” The speaker of a poem (10[1])by this lover (10[1])of Moses (10[1])Jackson (10[2])is told (10[1])“Give (10[1])crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.” (10[2])For 10 points, name this (10[1])author who included “To an Athlete (10[1])Dying (10[1])Young” (10[8]-5[2])and “When (10[2])I Was One-and-Twenty” (10[4])in his collection (10[2])A Shropshire Lad. (10[3])■END■ (10[4]0[7])

ANSWER: A. E. Housman [or Alfred Edward Housman] (The first line is from “A.E.H.” by Kingsley Amis.)
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