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,
“... to read the poems. One anecdote that Parker does not pass on to us concerns a meeting with Frank Harris, in which Housman took offence at Harris’s suggestion that the final stanza of ‘1887’, the introductory poem of A Shropshire Lad, was darkly intended. The poem remembers the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and Housman ... ”