Last Poems by A. E. Housman (Annotated)

Last Poems (1922) gathers A. E. Housman's characteristically spare, musical lyrics into a volume preoccupied with mortality, lost youth, disappointed love, and the stoic endurance of pain. Written in ballad measures, epigrammatic quatrains, and deceptively simple diction, the poems refine the elegiac mode familiar from A Shropshire Lad while deepening its fatalism. Their classical restraint and fo...