Word: housman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amis also shows a knack for presenting familiar poets in unfamiliar guises. He dutifully includes not only Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky but also a dead-on parody of Hiawatha: ("From his shoulder Hiawatha/ Took the camera of rosewood-/ Made of sliding, folding rosewood ..."). A.E. Housman's familiar Hellenic manner is turned inside out in his version of a hilariously mistranslated Greek tragedy: "O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots/ Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom/ Whence by what way how purposed art thou come...
...Housman's familiar poem tells of an athlete dying young...
...times tragedy permanently granitizes the athlete at the top of the mountain. One need look no farther than baseball's Roberto Clemente or auto racing's Peter Revson as examples of what A.E. Housman was trying to say in "To an Athlete Dying Young" when he penned "Now you will not swell the rout/Of lads who wore their honor...
Died. Edward Allen Pierce, 100, last surviving founder of the nation's largest stockbrokerage house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; in Manhattan. In 1901 Pierce left his job as manager of a lumber business for a $20-a-week clerkship with the prestigious brokerage house of A.A. Housman on Wall Street. Twenty-six years later, the company's name became E.A. Pierce & Co. In 1940 E.A. Pierce & Co. merged with the investment banking firm Merrill Lynch; a year later Fenner joined, followed by Smith in 1958. Pierce continued actively to govern his empire until well into...
...finest illustrations of all scatter the only verse narrative in Beyond the Looking Glass. Christina Rossetti wrote this text, called "Goblin Market," and Laurence Housman made the wood cuts. Rossetti was an excellent religious poet with near a thousand orthodox Christian poems to her credit, but "Goblin Market" is a far cry from pious spirituality. The verse oozes with sensual color and tastes; it is a surprisingly erotic work of literature for children...