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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 Tragedy,” meets the ghosts of Pater and Oscar Wilde in the play The Invention of Love. The speaker says “Eyes the shady night has shut / Cannot see (10[1])the record cut” in a poem 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 of Moses Jackson is told “Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.” For 10 points, name this author who included “To an Athlete (10[1])Dying Young” (10[1])and “When (10[1])I Was One-and-Twenty” (10[1])in his collection (10[1])A Shropshire Lad. ■END■

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