“The experience of poetry is not the experience of the thought, but of…” — A.E.Housman

“The experience of poetry is not the experience of the thought, but of the words.”

Drawing attention to the sensuous force of poetic language · Lecture, later published as the essay The Name and Nature of Poetry

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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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