Last Poems
A. E. Housman
Read by Foon
"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)
Chapters
| Foreword | 1:47 | Read by Foon |
| Poems I-VI | 7:27 | Read by Foon |
| Poems VII-XII | 6:19 | Read by Foon |
| Poems XIII-XVIII | 7:01 | Read by Foon |
| Poems XIX-XXIV | 5:29 | Read by Foon |
| Poems XXV-XXX | 5:30 | Read by Foon |
| Poems XXXI-XXXVI | 9:35 | Read by Foon |
| Poems XXXVII-XLI | 6:31 | Read by Foon |
Reviews
False Grind
"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.