Terance This Is Stupid Stuff | |
Auhtor: A Houseman | |
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Summary of the Book 'Terance This Is Stupid Stuff':
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 ? 30 April 1936) usually known as A. E. Housman was an English classical scholar and poet best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside in spare language and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste and to many early twentieth century English composers both before and after the First World War. Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era and with Shropshire itself. Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and on the strength and quality of his work was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later at Cambridge. His editions of Juvenal Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.
Excerpts from the Book 'Terance This Is Stupid Stuff':
... 'Terance, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, ...
... oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead It sleeps well, the horned head: We poor ...
... time Moping melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad' Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for ...
... why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ...
... the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not. And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past: The mischief is that 'twill not last. Oh I have been ...
... quarts of Ludlow beer: Then to world seemed none so bad, And myself a sterling lad And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again. ...
... I was I, my things were wet, And nothing now remained to do But begin the game anew. Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less ...
... but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good. 'Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale Is not so brisk a ...
... hand I wrung it in a weary land. But take it: if the smack is sour, The better for the embittered hour It should do good to heart and head When ...
... a king reigned in the East: There, when kings will sit to feast, They get their fill before they think With poisoned meat and poisoned drink. He ...
... He sampled all her killing store And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, Sate the king when healths went round. They put arsenic in his meat And ...
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