Frasi di Alfred Edward Housman

Alfred Edward Housman è stato un poeta e filologo classico inglese, meglio noto per aver scritto la raccolta poetica A Shropshire Lad .

Come filologo classico, curò le edizioni di Manilio , di Giovenale e di Lucano .

La sua produzione poetica, rigorosa nella forma volutamente scarna, è l'espressione di un cupo pessimismo che ricorda Thomas Hardy. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Marzo 1859 – 30. Aprile 1936   •   Altri nomi آلفرد ادوارد هاوسمن, A. E. Housman
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Alfred Edward Housman Frasi e Citazioni

“Sta quiete anima mia, sta quieta; | le armi che porti sono fragili.”

citato in Charles Morgan, La fontana, traduzione di Corrado Alvaro e Laura Babini, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1961

Alfred Edward Housman: Frasi in inglese

“Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
I never soiled with such a deed.”

No. 19, st. 2.
Origine: More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
The stroke of midnight ceases,
And I lie down alone.”

No. 11, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.”

No. 6, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”

A.E. Housman libro A Shropshire Lad

No. 2, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Saturae of Juvenal (Cambridge University Press, [1905] 1931) p. xi.

“His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.”

A.E. Housman libro A Shropshire Lad

No. 14, st. 3.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.”

From a list of insults drafted by A E Housman, and posthumously published in Laurence Housman's A. E. H. (1937) pp. 89-90. The name was left blank in the original, but was intended to be filled in and used when a suitable subject should turn up.

“Far in a western brookland
That bred me long ago
The poplars stand and tremble
By pools I used to know.”

A.E. Housman libro A Shropshire Lad

No. 52, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.”

A remark made in conversation, according to Grant Richards Housman 1897-1936 (1942) p. 100.
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