Word: housman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decadence. Keith John Reeve, an alumnus of Bromsgrove (A. E. Housman's school), thought that his monastic old school would do better to imitate the social life at St. James in Maryland, where there were three dances a year and dates almost every week. Otherwise he was sticking by Bromsgrove. Said Reeve: "At Bromsgrove, we developed a thirst for knowledge. At St. James, boys were apt to regard culture as a sign of decadence, devotion to learning as the mark of a sissy. The student merely wants to learn enough to pass the next test. Then it goes...
...Housman, late master of the bittersweet lyric, got a further unveiling as a comic poet by Brother Laurence in The Atlantic. Fragment out of A. E.'s boyhood, quoted by Laurence from memory...
...choice of bedside literature is ... a personal matter. I like the book of Ecclesiastes, Omar Khayyam, and a few of the more lugubrious poems of A. E. Housman...
...quality Housman always lacked-the pure genius for simple, limber speech, untroubled by literature. But all that can be done by lyric inspiration under literary control he did in such a poem...
...American versifier, not to be confused with a female A. E. Housman...