‘With Rue My Heart Is Laden’: The Poetry of A.E. Housman

‘With Rue My Heart Is Laden’: The Poetry of A.E. Housman
A.E. Housman’s poem “With Rue My Heart Is Laden” expresses the sorrow of lost youth. Sculpture in Milan, Italy’s Monumental Cemetery. Alicja Graczyk/Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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When I left graduate school long ago without earning my doctorate, one of my first thoughts was “Now I’ll be able to read whatever I want.”

And I set out to do just that. Throughout my 20s, in my pre-children days, I followed my heart and desire in pursuit of literature. For hours every day, books were my companions, ranging from the works of novelists as diverse as Dostoevsky, John Gardner, and Raymond Chandler to William Manchester’s biographies and Shelby Foote’s “The Civil War.”

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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