At age 77, this classical scholar looks back on his younger self while crossing the River Styx in Charon's boat.
This character attends a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience with a friend who is only excited by the electricity in the Savoy Theater. This character applies the label "idiot child" to Robinson Ellis, who appears on stage with a scooter and lollipop. This character writes about a "young sinner with handcuffs on his wrists" who goes to prison for the "colour of his hair" to commemorate the (*) trial of his major foil, Oscar Wilde. This expert Manilius translator forgets to time a race because he is distracted by watching his best friend and love interest, an athletic science student named Moses Jackson. At age 77, this classical scholar looks back on his younger self while crossing the River Styx in Charon's boat. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, also the author of such poems as "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries," "When I was One-and-Twenty," and "To an Athlete Dying Young."
This character attends a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience with a friend who is only excited by the electricity in the Savoy Theater.
Alfred Edward Housman [or Professor Housman]