The Invention of Love

"An excellent topic for a poem. False Nostalgia. Ruskin said you could see the Muses dance for Apollo in Derbyshire before the railways."

How do I know that I'm a loyal son
Of 19th century foolishness and cant?
Because I think that Housman was a poet
First, and a scholar second. And a Great.

I was born to read this play, to read and love it.

"To be a scholar, the first thing you have to learn is that scholarship is nothing to do with taste. . . It is work to be done. Posterity has a brisk way with manuscripts: scholarship is a small redress against the vast unreason of what is taken from us -- it's not just the worthless that perish, Jesus doesn't save."

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