When I Was One-and-Twenty E-book Author: Alfred Edward Housman Genre: Literature, Poetry
Housman, A. (Alfred) E. (Edward) (1859-1936) - English poet and scholar
whose reputation arose from a single volume, "A Shropshire Lad." Housman
later became a professor of classics at Cambridge and refused, until
shortly before his death, to even speak about his verse.
When I Was One-and-Twenty (1896) - Opening lines: When I was one-and-
twenty / I heard a wise man say, ...
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