With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of it mannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.
- ISBN10 1853264113
- ISBN13 9781853264115
- Publish Date 5 May 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English