'Terence, this1 is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals2 fast enough; There can't be much amiss,'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, 5 It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well, ...
doi:10.1080/00144940.1971.11483011SwansonW. J.The Explicator
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff byA.E. Housman, 1859-1936; read byJames Mason •Background Lacking a title, and so commonly referred to just by its opening line, this is the penultimate poem (number LXII) in Housman's 1896 cycleA Shropshire Lad. ...
Poetic Terms In “Terence, This Is Stupid Stuffâ€A.E. Housman’s “Terence
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doi:10.1080/00144940.1973.11483151Douglas John McReynoldsThe ExplicatorMcReynolds, D. J., `Housman's "Terence, This is Stupid Stuff", 1-14', Explicator, 31 (1973), Item 39