William White wrote about the memorial inscriptions composed by this man, whose writings in Latin include "Hendecasyllables," (hun-DECK-uh-SILL-uh-bulls) a translation of Dryden's "Britain." This author mocked nursery rhymes with a poem about a "huge and wild" grizzly bear who "has devoured the infant child." This poet lame
William White wrote about the memorial inscriptions composed by this man, whose writings in Latin include "Hendecasyllables," (hun-DECK-uh-SILL-uh-bulls) a translation of Dryden's "Britain." This author mocked nursery rhymes with a poem about a "huge and wild" grizzly bear who "has devoured the infant child." This poet laments that "of my threescore years and ten / twenty will not come again" and decides to look at "things in bloom" because "fifty springs are little room" in (*) "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now". In one of this man's poems, the speaker is given advice like "the heart out of the bosom / was never given in vain" and "give crowns and pounds and guineas / but not your heart away." Another of his poems claims that "early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose." For 10 points, name this Englishman whose poems "When I Was One-and-Twenty" and "To an Athlete Dying Young" can be found in A Shropshire Lad.
William White wrote about the memorial inscriptions composed by this man, whose writings in Latin include "Hendecasyllables," (hun-DECK-uh-SILL-uh-bulls) a translation of Dryden's "Britain.
A.E. Housman [or Alfred Edward Housman]