When I Was One-and-Twenty
Source: Father: An Anthology of Verse (EP Dutton & Company, 1931)
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Poet A. E. Housman 1859–1936
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Living, Coming of Age, Relationships, Love, Men & Women, Classic Love, First Love, Unrequited Love, Break-ups & Vexed Love
Biography
At first glance nothing seems more unlikely than that the poet of the enormously popular A Shropshire Lad should be the classical scholar A. E. Housman. This Cambridge University professor of Latin left no doubt as to his priorities: the emendation of classical texts was both an intellectual search for the truth and his life's work; poetry was an emotional and physiological experience that began with a sensation in the pit of . . .
Poems by A. E. Housman
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Coming of Age, Relationships, Love, Men & Women, Classic Love, First Love, Unrequited Love, Break-ups & Vexed Love
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
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