The landscape that moves me most in all the world is that of Shropshire and Herefordshire in England and the adjacent Welsh border country. I do not mean by this that it is the most beautiful ...

In 1898, an enterprising young publisher made a deal with Alfred Housman, a Latin professor at University College London, to reissue his first book of poems, “A Shropshire Lad,” which had sold just ...

"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough, / And stands about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide...." ...

ANOTHER volume of A. E. Housman’s delicate lyrics comes as a surprise in event rather than in matter. We know the mood and the voice; a continuation of them enriches us almost reminiscently. Housman’s ...

One day, more years ago than I like to number, I rode my bicycle to the branch library located in the Plaza Shopping Center in Lorain, Ohio. There, from a bottom shelf, I plucked out a slender volume ...

THE NAME AND NATURE OF POETRY— A. E. Housman — Macmillan ($1). ”How the world is managed, and why it was created, I cannot tell; but it is no featherbed for the repose of sluggards.” More than one ...

This week’s headline is the title of an A.E. Housman poem in which the cynical author proclaims: “Malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.” Of course, Housman being Housman, the ...

Fifty years ago, A. E. Housman published, at his own expense, the first edition of A Shropshire Lad. The latest edition, which does homage to that event, is published by the Colby Library in ...