![]() ![]() His poetry contains pity, but it stops short of being self-pitying. ‘One day I’ll be dead, and then you’ll be sorry’ is how at least one detractor has cruelly summed up the gist of Housman’s work.īut what ‘Tell me not here’ shows is just how finely Housman trod the line between expressing a sentiment and being sentimental. Housman is often characterised as self-pitying and even adolescent in its outlook on the world. Taken from Housman’s second volume Last Poems (1922) – which, true to its title, was the final collection Housman allowed to be published during his lifetime – this poem muses upon ‘heartless, witless nature’ during the autumn season. ‘ Tell me not here, it needs not saying’. ![]()
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