Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"To An Athlete Dying Young\" is a poem in A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (1896). It is characterized as a lyric poem and also a elegy. It is perhaps one of the best-known poems pertaining to early death; in this case, that of a young man at the height of his physical power. The setting is the funeral of a champion athlete, a young runner.Housman wrote the poem in 1896, perhaps inspired by the death of his close friend Adalbert Jackson in 1892."@en }
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- To_an_Athlete_Dying_Young comment "\"To An Athlete Dying Young\" is a poem in A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (1896). It is characterized as a lyric poem and also a elegy. It is perhaps one of the best-known poems pertaining to early death; in this case, that of a young man at the height of his physical power. The setting is the funeral of a champion athlete, a young runner.Housman wrote the poem in 1896, perhaps inspired by the death of his close friend Adalbert Jackson in 1892.".