Last Poems
Gelesen von Foon
A. E. Housman
(4,25 Sterne; 2 Bewertungen)
"I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which in the early months of 1895 I wrote the greater part of my first book, nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came; and it is best that what I have written should be printed while I am here to see it through the press and control its spelling and punctuation. About a quarter of this matter belongs to the April of the present year, but most of it to dates between 1895 and 1910.
September 1922" - Summary by Preface (0 hr 49 min)
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False Grind
(3,5 Sterne)
"Last Poems" is simply not as good as "A Shropshire Lad," but I think that has long stood to reason for most as being an uncontroversial opinion. The reader's voice on this final volume of Housman's poetry is calm, well-paced, slightly muted in tone -- which seems functional for some of these poems, but not for others -- and non-abrasively recorded. It's a better-than-average reading for sure.