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Failing To Share The Pillar-box

Sam Leith H OUSE OF S TONE : T HE T RUE S TORY OF A F AMILY D IVIDED IN W AR -T ORN ZIMBABWE by Christina Lamb HarperCollins, £14.99, pp. 290, ISBN 0007219385 ✆ £11.99 (plus......

Why Housman Holds Up

A ged 12 or 13 I copied several poems by Housman into a commonplace book I had been encouraged to keep. An English master had read several Housman poems to us, and I’ve been......