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,
“... where it relates specifically to the personality of the poet, always has a teasing quality. Philip Larkin, who admired Housman officially and also less openly, had many of the same characteristics. Housman can be brutally exclamatory and immediate, though always poised. When the bells justle in the tower The hollow night amid, Then on my tongue ... ”