While at Oxford AEH
fell in love with Moses Jackson
, a fellow-student who was a scientist and athlete without literary interests. Housman's love was lifelong and apparently unrequited.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
A. E. Housman
In the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Norman Page
suggests that the spur to publication may have been the fact that Moses Jackson
, AEH
's first and strongest love, was suffering from cancer...
