“He is a strange phenomenon, but to my mind the most perfect expression of something deeply English and a whole mood of English history.”
-Poet Laureate Ted Hughes describing the spirit of Housman
“In his attitude to life, there seemed something baffled and even shrinking, as though he feared criticism and emotion alike more than he relished experience. …
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