The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

by Michael Irwin (Introduction), Michael Irwin (Introduction), A.E. Housman (Author)

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  1994

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  With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, University of Kent at Canterbury.

  Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of it mannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.