" So goes, FTP, what poem by A. E. Housman about a runner who has died an early death?
First published in 1896 in the collection A Shropshire Lad, the title figure is now a "[t]ownsman of a stiller town." The speaker seems both ironic and sincere simultaneously when he muses that the title figure is a "[s]mart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay." So goes, FTP, what poem by A. E. Housman about a runner who has died an early death?
First published in 1896 in the collection A Shropshire Lad, the title figure is now a "[t]ownsman of a stiller town.
“{To an Athlete Dying Young}”