The Laws of God, The Laws of Man by A. E. Housman (poetry reading)

So why is Housman so upset He was homosexual at a very difficult time in history. (Except that the word homosexual wasn t common then) He was only 5 years younger than Oscar Wilde who served 2 years in jail for gross indecency under the 1885 act. Sodomy was a hanging offence in Byron s day, which he why he fled the Greece where they took a more liberal view of it. Until 1861 a man could be hanged for sodomy, although the last hanging was in 1836. There s more about Byron and Wilde here: mu br, br,