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." 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]