Line 920:  little hairs stand on end

Alfred Housman (1859-1936), whose collection The Shropshire Lad vies with the In Memoriam of Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) in representing, perhaps (no, delete this craven “perhaps”), the highest achievement of English poetry in a hundred years, says somewhere (in a foreword?) exactly the opposite:  The bristling of thrilled little hairs obstructed his barbering; but since both Alfreds certainly used an Ordinary Razor, and John Shade an ancient Gillette, the discrepancy may have been due to the use of different instruments.