Victorian Poetry 26: Last class: Housman after a touch of Yeats and a little Michael Field

Published: May 4, 2023, 1:43 p.m.

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. \xa0A class in part about why I hope poetry, or some poems, will matter to the students throughout their lives.