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The Poetry of A. E. Housman Volume II: Last Poems

By: Alfred Edward Housman
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
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Housman himself knew that his output as a poet would not be large. In his preface to this volume, he wrote, rather touchingly: "I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more." He pulled Last Poems together because his life-long friend, Moses Jackson, was dying and Housman wanted Jackson to be able to read these poems before Jackson passed away.

The work in this volume is more varied in form and content than in his first book, and shows a change of heart, a greater acceptance of the human condition, along with a more impersonal voice. If anything, his voice is gentler, his spirit calmer and more accepting, and his sense of the eternal stronger than in his first book.

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