How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn

Author:Daniel Mendelsohn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

—The New York Review of Books, October 10, 2002

The Tale of Two Housmans

Tom Stoppard’s play about A. E. Housman opens with a perceptive bit of shtick. As the curtain rises, the eminent Cambridge Latinist and author of A Shropshire Lad has just died at the age of seventy-seven—the year is 1936—and is waiting to be ferried across the Styx. Charon, the infernal ferryman, is waiting, too: he keeps peering over “Professor Housman’s” shoulder, looking for the other passenger he thinks he’s supposed to be picking up:

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