Nothing for Ever and Ever
Frank Kermode: Housman’s Pleasures, 5 July 2007
The Letters of A.E. Housman
edited by Archie Burnett.
Oxford, 1228 pp., £180, March 2007,978 0 19 818496 6 Show More
edited by Archie Burnett.
Oxford, 1228 pp., £180, March 2007,
“... classical scholars who had received them, admiring the attitude of the 17th-century Greek scholar Thomas Gataker who refused a Cambridge doctorate because ‘like Cato the censor he would rather have people ask why he had no statue than why he had one.’ When he came across some self-critical words of T.E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom – ‘there was ... ”