“It is no good for a rhinoceros to hunt for fleas: he does not know…” — A.E.Housman

“It is no good for a rhinoceros to hunt for fleas: he does not know where they are, and could not catch them if he did.”

A comic image for the importance of sensitivity and aptitude · Lecture, The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, 1921

A.E.Housman

About A.E.Housman

26 March 1859–30 April 1936

Alfred Edward Housman was born on 26 March 1859 at Valley House, Fockbury, a small hamlet near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England, and died in Cambridge on 30 April 1936. He became, by way of an unusually divided life, both one of the most recognizable lyric poets in English and one of the most formidable classical…

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