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...His new novel, eden, sees Crace use vivid and poetic language — think Italo Calvino meeting AE Housman in the Old Testament — to render his vision of the Garden of Eden after the departure of Adam and Eve...
...After reading A Shropshire Lad, the American poet Robert Lowell said that Housman “foresaw the Somme”. How else to account for the morbid preoccupation with doomed youth?...
...Peter Parker’s Housman Country, a study of A Shropshire Lad and the continuing reverberations that AE Housman’s nostalgic poems of “blue remembered hills” and wartime sacrifice have in our day, was a reminder...
...Speyer, who had rescued the Proms from extinction when its founder Robert Newman went bankrupt in 1902, was stripped of his British citizenship and ended up an exile in the US....
...This year, Robert Hiscox, former deputy chairman of Lloyd’s of London, helped rescue a bookshop in Marlborough with the plan of making it a local arts venue....
...Authors represented include Dexter’s great hero, the poet AE Housman, Charles Dickens, JM Barrie and Raymond Chandler....
...His portrait of AE Housman is intended as a corrective to Tom Stoppard’s “The Invention of Love,” which examines Housman’s personal vicissitudes....
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