A.E. Housman: Finding a Path to Flourish
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. A.E. HOUSMAN: A MAN OF LOST CONTENT will look at this enigmatic person; our greatest classicist who penned some of the loveliest poetry ever written. Despite the relative…
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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. A.E. HOUSMAN: A MAN OF LOST CONTENT will look at this enigmatic person; our greatest classicist who penned some of the loveliest poetry ever written. Despite the relative paucity of his poetic output--his collection; A Shropshire Lad; has never been out of print. He was offered the Poet Laureatship and the Order of Merit; but declined both. Housman could be kind and unkind; friendly and rude; gregarious and painfully silent; a recluse and a bon-viveur. He believed that life was dreadful and death welcome; but also that death ended one's enjoyment of cherry trees and of the English countryside; a gourmet who lived frugally; a traditionalist who loved to fly to France in the dangerous days of pioneering aviation. He lost his religious faith at 13 but he still acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Bible which he used extensively in his poems.
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Shropshire Lad Housman A. E.
Shropshire Lad Housman A. E.
Finding a Place to Stand
Path to Freedom
Path to purge