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October 6, 2017A E Housman

The Poet Laureate of Englishness

Here is a new review essay in The Atlantic. Here too are The New York Times, The Guardian, London Review of Books and Washington Post. A. E. HousmanBrexitenglishnessPeter ParkerPoetrysocial identity

April 30, 2017A E Housman

A. E. Housman

Died on this day. See Housman’s entry in Poetry Foundation. I came to know Housman through his classical scholarship and only much later got round to reading his poetry. Housman was a scathe merchant of the highest order, sometimes it felt like wrestling with a razor blade. One of my favorite quotes of his could well…

August 23, 2015A E Housman

A. E. Housman on Editorship

I’ve always felt that Housman was one of the sharpest and most insightful intellects of his day and certainly beyond, a caste of mind not terribly dissimilar to that other danger man, Bernard Williams. In critical mode reading them is akin to handling razor blades. Below is Housman as scathing classicist. After that is Richard Dawkins reading some…