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Housman

[ US /ˈhaʊsmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. English poet (1859-1936)

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
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