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    Last Poems: Poetry of A.E. Housman
    Last Poems: Poetry of A.E. Housman
    Last Poems: Poetry of A.E. Housman
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    Last Poems: Poetry of A.E. Housman

    Written by A. E. Housman

    Narrated by Robert Bethune

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    About this audiobook

    Housman himself knew that his output as a poet would not be large.
    In his preface to this volume, he wrote, rather touchingly:

    "I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more."

    He pulled Last Poems together because his life-long friend, Moses Jackson, was dying and Housman wanted Jackson to be able to read these poems before he passed away.

    The work in this volume is more varied in form and content than in his first book, and shows a change of heart, a greater acceptance of the human condition, along with a more impersonal voice.
    His sense of the finality of life is strong:

    Dead clay that did me kindness
    I can do none to you
    But only wear for breast-knot
    The flower of sinner's rue.

    Yet, if anything, his voice is gentler, his spirit calmer and more accepting, and his sense of the eternal stronger than in his first book.

    Enjoy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreshwater Seas
    Release dateMar 16, 2009
    ISBN9781933311463
    Last Poems: Poetry of A.E. Housman
    Author

    A. E. Housman

    Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was born and brought up in the Bromsgrove region of Worcestershire, adjacent to Shropshire, and was educated locally and at St John's College, Oxford. Though he was a fine scholar, he failed to gin an Honours degree, and spent some years in the Patent Office in London. A series of brilliant academic articles secured him the Professorship of Latin at London University and he went on the become Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. Most famous for A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems was published in 1922, More Poems appeared posthumously and Collected Poems in 1939.

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