Tag Archives: Housmania

I’m fairly cer­tain that Den­nis has already seen this, but just in case and for the ben­e­fit of other readers–David But­ter­field has reviewed Archie Burnett’s The Let­ters of A.E. Hous­man, a mas­sive 960-page vol­ume, in BMCR. Here is the lead … Con­tinue read­ing →

In his Cam­bridge Inau­gural Lec­ture of 1911, pub­lished under the title The Con­fines of Crit­i­cism, A.E. Hous­man was con­cerned pri­mar­ily with two com­mon detri­ments to the true work of a scholar. To Hous­man ‘scholar’ was really a tech­ni­cal term for … Con­tinue read­ing →

Here’s some­thing for those of you who are glued to your mon­i­tors but would still like to take a break with a good book now and again: Dai­lyLit. (This one comes cour­tesy the Seat­tle Times.) I haven’t looked it over … Con­tinue read­ing →

Since Den­nis has such a great inter­est in Hous­man, I usu­ally try to make a men­tal note when I come across ref­er­ences to him in other writ­ers. This is the first in a series of (at the moment) only two … Con­tinue read­ing →

Frank Ker­mode in the Lon­don Review of Books reviews Archie Burnett’s expen­sive new edi­tion of Housman’s let­ters. It’s worth read­ing for many rea­son, includ­ing enter­tain­ing bits like this: He declined all aca­d­e­mic and national hon­ours because to accept them would … Con­tinue read­ing →