The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMANI think that to transfuse emotion – not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader’s sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer – is the peculiar function of poetry.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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