Vexatious things

[flemmings]

I have no use for Kingsley Amis, that small-souled nasty man, and so am both taken aback and obscurely offended to discover that he liked Housman. Well, no matter. I *still* like Housman even if Kingsley Amis did too.

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[kickinpants.livejournal.com]

It's hard to not like Housman though. There's no need to forgive yourself. :-)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh, quite enough people have managed not to like Housman through the years. Look at the comment below that article, by the (I trust) self-titled Henry Miller. "As offensive perhaps to conventional modern tastes as Housman's poetry itself (J note: you could use a comma here, Hank) is its patent artificiality. Rustic songs of love and early death being written by a dryasdust, asexual London scholar." The odd thing is, I'd have thought Amis would have been one of the detractors.