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Victorian Poetry 26: Last class: Housman after a touch of Yeats and a little Michael Field
Episode 214
Thursday, 4 May, 2023
We look at Yeats a little more, then "Michael Field," and then Housman's poem about Wilde and other poems about his own sexuality, and about the intense, Horatian ephemerality of life. A class in part about why I hope poetry, or some poems, will matter to the students throughout their lives.