Admirers of A.E.Housman might be amused and/or enraged by Germaine Greer's characteristically polemical piece published in last Saturday's books supplement of the (London) Guardian newspaper. It can be sourced at www.guardian.co.uk if you run a search on Germaine Greer. (Don't trust myself to transcribe long Web addresses accurately). In the author's defence I should point out that the article is extracted from a longer (and possibly more nuanced)lecture. While agreeing with some of Greer's conclusions, I deplore her tone which IMO verges at times on the homophobic. Moreover, it seems hard to lay all the blame for Hallmark-style verse on A.E.H's shoulders. Margaret.