He parodied classical tradition in his Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, and there is evidence of homosexual leanings in De Amicit
He parodied classical tradition in his Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, and there is evidence of homosexual leanings in De Amicitia. Often using as a theme fleeting nature of youth, he frequently wrote of Ludlow, where he is buried. An important classical scholar, he edited translations of Juvenal and Lucan and taught at Cambridge for several years. But he remains best-known for poems, in one of which the speaker describes an old man telling him to not give his heart away, and another in which he tells a certain Roman poet that he eats his victuals fast enough. For ten points, name this British poet, the creator of "When I was one-and-twenty" and "Terence, this is stupid stuff".
He parodied classical tradition in his Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, and there is evidence of homosexual leanings in De Amicitia.
Alfred Edward {Housman}