For 10 points, identify this English poet, the author of the collection A Shropshire Lad.
In one of this man's poems, he wrote that "the tree of man was never quiet then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I." In a poem about a figure jailed "for the colour of his hair," a reference to homosexuality, this man asked "Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?" This man's poetry was influenced by his unrequited love for Oxford classmate Moses Jackson. This poet wrote that (*) "malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man" in a poem about a character who "eats his victuals fast enough." That poem by him appears in a collection with "When I was one-and-twenty" and "To An Athlete Dying Young." For 10 points, identify this English poet, the author of the collection A Shropshire Lad.
In one of this man's poems, he wrote that "the tree of man was never quiet then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I." In a poem about a figure jailed "for the colour of his hair," a reference to homosexuality, this man asked "Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?"
Alfred Edward Housman