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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 “Fragment of a Greek (-5[1])Tragedy,” meets the ghosts of Pater and Oscar Wilde in the play The Invention of Love. The (10[1])speaker says “Eyes the shady night has shut / Cannot see 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 by this lover (10[1])of Moses (10[1])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 Dying Young” (10[1]-5[1])and “When I Was One-and-Twenty” (10[1])in his collection A Shropshire Lad. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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