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...“It is the paradox of his life,” GK Chesterton wrote in a biographical study of William Cobbett, “that he loved the past, and he alone really lived in the future.”...
...’ song cycle of AE Housman poems, On Wenlock Edge, and Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A minor....
...Significantly, George Butterworth’s settings of AE Housman’s poems from A Shropshire Lad – which nowadays are often played as a lament for fallen first world war soldiers – were first performed at the festival...
...The brilliant title comes from AE Housman’s poem “Is My Team Ploughing”, a conversation between a dead man and his living friend, now with the girlfriend he left behind....
...Housman’s poems in A Shropshire Lad and his orchestral piece The Banks of Green Willow are his best-known works and, as with Coles, his death had long echoes: Osborne is convinced the creative dynamic between...
...Housman’s poetry, without having in mind his early death as a soldier in the First World War....
...Guy de Maupassant, Balzac, RK Narayan, Isaac Babel, Ralph Ellison, George Orwell, William Faulkner. What book do you wish you’d written? To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson....
...The author’s range extends to a number of modern masters as well, including Henry James, AE Housman and Tennessee Williams. Here Mendelsohn’s theme of fragility is enlarged....
...In homage to this year’s Vaughan Williams commemoration, they followed on with his Symphony No. 8, given its premiere by the Hallé in 1956....
...After the Ancients, pastoral dipped out of sight, but reappeared at the start of the 20th century in the poems of Housman and Edward Thomas, and the music of Vaughan Williams, Butterworth and the folk-song...
...Beardsley’s neo-medieval femmes fatales and arts and crafts book designs such as Le Morte Darthur owe a clear debt to Burne-Jones, pre-Raphaelitism and William Morris....
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