Word: housman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace and jazz tempo...
...UNEXPECTED YEARS-Laurence Housman-Bobbs-Merrill...
When Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) published his first book of poems in 1895, his older brother Alfred wrote him: "I had far far rather have my poems mistaken as yours, than your poems mistaken as mine." In his will the solitary author of A Shropshire Lad gave his brother permission "to publish any poems which appear to him to be completed and to be not inferior to the average of my published poems." Last week Laurence offered a selection of 48 lyrics which he found among his distinguished brother's papers, in a volume that...
...verses in More Poems are typical of Housman, give no evidence of lack of finish or failing power. They abound in tight, dry expressions of his skepticism...
...contains several poems on the War, including one of "dreams of a field afar," in which the poet thinks of his comrades in their graves while he is alive. But they, when I forgot and ran, Remembered and remain. It contains Housman's For My Funeral, which seems likely to endure as long as any of his work, and an epitaph for dead soldiers...