Mainly selected from 'A Shropshire Lad,' read by LAURENCE HOUSMAN
THE work of A. E. Housman occupies a unique position in the field of modern
English poetry; despite its reiterated hammer-beat of pessimism, it succeeds in winning an audience wide enough to be reckoned astonishing in these days of ' the little-read poets.' It is difficult to think of Shropshire without remembering ' A Shropshire Lad,' so completely has Housman identified his art with Ludlow and the bills that surround it. Indeed, it is, perhaps, not too much to claim for the poet (who, by the way, will be celebrating his seventieth birthday on March 26) that his poetry has added the most individual note to the whole range of modem English verse. This reading of his poems will be given by Laurence Housman , brother of the poet, and himself poet, novelist, and artist.