WHEN A. E. H.’s Shropshire Lad had without question begun to make its mark in the literary world, a friend asked him whether, while he was writing it, he knew how good and original it was. “Yes,” he ...

THE finality of the title of Mr. A. E. Housman’s Last Poems makes it possible to consider his two slender volumes as a whole. A Shropshire Lad has now for many years been a classic, by its grave ...

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN edited by C. Day Lewis. 191 pages. New Directions. $4.75. In 1914, a month before the guns of August began to thunder, a 21-year-old Englishman wrote some verse: ...

THE MANUSCRIPT POEMS OF A. E. HOUSMAN (146 pp.)—Edited by Tom Burns Haber—University of Minnesota Press ($4.50). A. E. Housman once said that he had to blot poetry out of his mind while shaving ...