How To Use Housman In A Sentence
- We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
- As for enlisting the resourceful Wilma production for being "more evocative of the real-life Housman's seething emotions than the text itself," Mr. Mendelsohn unluckily picks an evocation which is prescribed in the stage directions. 'The Invention of Love': An Exchange
- He is quite right that Wilde is in the play as a foil to Housman, and elevates the "dithyrambic" artist at the expense of the scrupulous scholar. 'The Invention of Love': An Exchange
- Not so very far from here the smaller, traditional, wild daffodils, the kind that inspired Wordsworth and Housman, grow in profusion in woods and by roadsides. On the Verge
- The English classicist Housman said that in scholarship, accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.
- Gow acted as Housman's literary executor, and supervised a reprint of his edition of Manilius.
- Furthermore, Housman takes advantage of the poem's regular meter to emphasize key words.
- He proposed an intervention in central Paris that would see serried ranks of multi-storey blocks dissected with super-highways, replacing the grand boulevards of Housmann.
- Outside, through the west-facing window, the far hills were turning indigo -- `blue remembered', she thought, like Housman's. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
- The business about haplography and dittography and homoteleuton reminds me of H for Housman as a critic … It’s certainly relevant to our new textual problems – that is, how poems are reproduced on the web. H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation