Publisher's Synopsis
This collection brings together the significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951. The picture which emerges is of a poet not only of popular appeal, but of great literary distinction, who was admired by the majority of reviewers and critics who discussed his work. Among those quoted are J.B. Priestley, Edmund Gosse, Cyril Connolly, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Cleanth Brooke, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and E.M. Forster.
