The tragi-comedy of A. E. Housman

Housman’s poetry was simple, plain, unoriginal and relentlessly bleak. And one other thing: immensely popular. Apparently, “the lack of worldly consolation… other than the permanent extinction of death, is paradoxically consoling.”

Dalrymple at the New Criterion (subscription required)

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