Lethal Pastoral
Paul Keegan: Housman’s Lethal Pastoral, 17 November 2016
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England
by Peter Parker.
Little, Brown, 446 pp., £25, June 2016,978 1 4087 0613 8 Show More
by Peter Parker.
Little, Brown, 446 pp., £25, June 2016,
“... shared an insomniac watch over words. The uses to which Housman has been put are something else. Geoffrey Hill noted that ‘the century-long chronicle of the varied fortunes of A Shropshire Lad is not without its grotesqueries,’ and these are among Parker’s themes. His title is itself a challenge, with its air of Heritage ersatz. Housman was averse ... ”