Last Poems: With a Chapter from Twenty-Four Portraits By William Rothenstein
By A. E. Housman and William Rothenstein
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A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was born and brought up in the Bromsgrove region of Worcestershire, adjacent to Shropshire, and was educated locally and at St John's College, Oxford. Though he was a fine scholar, he failed to gin an Honours degree, and spent some years in the Patent Office in London. A series of brilliant academic articles secured him the Professorship of Latin at London University and he went on the become Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. Most famous for A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems was published in 1922, More Poems appeared posthumously and Collected Poems in 1939.
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Last Poems - A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman
A CHAPTER FROM
Twenty-four portraits
BY WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN
A. E. Housman is a poet in the English tradition. Calling his solitary book of lyrics A Shropshire Lad, he takes the reader back to a time when poetry was not merely or mainly metropolitan and each country knew creative pride. He uses the simplest English forms, writing new ballads that wear grimness of old; and he uses the simplest English themes, turning to days when the ploughman naturally loved a scarlet coat and, breaking the laws, was hanged for it without philosophically reviling the laws. His briefest verses have uncommon energy; they are a man's poetry and quicken the hearts of common men. It is poetry which moves in the changeful waters of our time like a swimmer conscious of his strength and careless of all else. The best of the lyrics -few are below the best -have each his athletic power, a masculine curtness and full pride of