Among many striking features of the unpublished poems, Verses written at the Devils bridge Cardiganshire (a serious poem in fourteen stanzas) has an epigraph from Propertius
. It thoughtfully analyses the decay of a loving...
Textual Features
Sally Purcell
The short poems of this collection are, as usual with SP
, highly allusive. Dr Dee
II and Dr Dee III again deal with sixteenth-century magic. Other pieces respond to writing by other poets: to...
Textual Production
A. E. Housman
Without an academic position, AEH
made himself in his spare time the leading classical textual editor of his generation. The edition of Propertius
which he worked at from his student days onwards was never published...
