Spruce
John Bayley, 2 June 1988
A.E. Housman: Collected Poems and Selected Prose
edited by Christopher Ricks.
Allen Lane, 528 pp., £18.95, April 1988,0 7139 9009 0 Show More
edited by Christopher Ricks.
Allen Lane, 528 pp., £18.95, April 1988,
“... was evolved deliberately, until it carried his trademark. Without asking permission the poet Edward Thomas anthologises him. ‘Mr Thomas thanks me for “a poem”,’ writes Housman to his publisher, ‘and prints two: which is the one he doesn’t thank me for?’ In 1922, commenting on his photo portrait to ... ”