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A. E. Housman (“Think No More, Lad,” “Hell’s Gate,” “Oh, See How Thick the Goldcup Flowers”)

On January 4, 2018 by The Captain

Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 — April 30, 1936) was an English scholar and poet. His lyrics expressed a “Romantic pessimism” in a very spare, simple style. Housman enjoyed “expressing emotion but keeping it at a certain distance,” and his main models in poetry were Heinrich Heine and William Shakespeare. He regarded himself principally […]

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