A.E. Housman (1859–1936) had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple, as the Sun pointed out when Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty ...

Videos by American Songwriter “The Cherry-Tree Carol” is one of the few Christmas songs that was also collected by the American scholar James Francis Child, in his famous Child Ballads ...

Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W.B Yeats (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941), 164. Hereafter ‘MacNeice’. 3. ... but ‘The Cherry-Tree Carol’, the refrained version known from sung carols with ...