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illustrated by Patrick Proctor. in slipcase, 1991 3rd printing illus, bright clean copy, Professional booksellers since 1981
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A. E. Housman was an eminent classicist and a poet. He is best known for this collection of poems and for his translations of Juvenal, Lucan, and Manilius.
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Housman is a high-water mark of British lyric poetry, and this fine production captures perfectly his strong, melodic beat and decisive rhyme, and his wonderful way with words. Samuel West's cultivated Midlands accent may not be specifically Shropshire, but his voice and reading are true to Housman who was not, after all, some rough Shropshire lad himself but an Oxford don. His Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now and To an Athlete Dying Young are beautifully rendered here. West, you feel, reads poetry as it should be read confidently, with ease and conviction, as if all the world spoke in meter and rhyme. --D.A.W., AudioFile Magazine
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