A line of poetry can make his beard bristle as he [A.E. Housman's] shaves, or cause a shiver down his spine, or 'a constriction of the throat' as well as 'a precipitation of water to the eyes'. For so reticent a man it was a surprising performance. It possibly upset his health, and he came to regard the date of the lecture, May 1933, as an ominous moment in his life.from The London Review of Books: Nothing for Ever and Ever
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