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One of the Finest Lyric Poets in English,
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This review is from: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (Hardcover)
A.E. Housman is sometimes spoken of as one of the "war poets," of the same period as Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Joyce Kilmer and others who wrote of the First World War. In point of fact, he was of the previous generation and published his most famous work, A Shropshire Lad, in 1896. Subsequent smaller volumes of his work, Last Poems, More Poems and Additional Poems, were published decades later, the latter two posthumously. All four sets of poems are contained in this volume.
Housman led a rather reclusive life, active in scholarly pursuits and teaching at several universities. Despite being known by close associates to have a sense of humor and being a skilled raconteur, he was considered even by his family to be rather stoic and cold. When Shropshire Lad first appeared, many were astounded by the passion with which he wrote of the seeming futility of life, the hearbreak of love and loss, and the utterly senseless waste of countless young lives lost in wars of empire. Housman is, in this writer's opinion, one of the greatest of lyric poets writing in English. The rythms, alliteration, mythological allusions and romantic imagey that elicit an almost painful pathos, are rarely equaled. If you're not familiar with Housman's work, this book is as good as it gets, including as it does all of his published work, with helpful introductory notes and indexing at the back. If you enjoy lyric poetry, don't miss this one.
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