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. Published in the period between the two Boer Wars, the poem gained even more popularity during World War I, as many saw it as a poignant lament for the lost generation of so many bright, young men, cut down in their prime."@en }
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- To_an_Athlete_Dying_Young abstract "\"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. Published in the period between the two Boer Wars, the poem gained even more popularity during World War I, as many saw it as a poignant lament for the lost generation of so many bright, young men, cut down in their prime.".