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BECAUSE I LIKED YOU BETTER by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN

Poet Analysis

Last Line: AND SAY THE LAD THAT LOVED YOU %WAS ONE THAT KEPT HIS WORD
Subject(s): HOMOSEXUALITY;

Poem Sources:

THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF VICTORIAN VERSE.
  RICKS, CHRISTOPHER (ED.)
  (1987)
 
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HOMOSEXUAL VERSE.
  COOTE, STEPHEN (ED.)
  (1983)
 
THE OXFORD BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH VERSE.
  LARKIN, PHILIP (ED.)
  (1973)
 
THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE.
  KEEGAN, PAUL (ED.)
  (2001)
 
THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE.
  RICKS, CHRISTOPHER (ED.)
  (1999)
 
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF A.E. HOUSMAN.
  HOUSMAN, ALFRED EDWARD
  (1939)