Издательство: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd. |
Дата выхода: | июль 2012 |
ISBN: | 978-1-85326-411-5 |
Объём: | 192 страниц |
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.