Oh how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.

A.E. Housman

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Topic

Alienation Courage The human condition

Author

A.E. Housman

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Housman, Alfred Edward. Last Poems. Henry Holt & Company, 1922, no. 12.

Current Citation

Housman, Alfred Edward. "Last Poems." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 12.

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Current Citation

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Time
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Citation

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