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Alfred Edward Housman – angielski filolog klasyczny i poeta.

Był autorem liryków elegijnych, których głównym tematem są śmierć i przemijanie. Jego wiersze tworzą tom A Shropshire lad . Polski przekład części jego twórczość opublikowany został w antologii Poeci języka angielskiego . Utwory Housmana tłumaczył m.in. Stanisław Barańczak. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Marzec 1859 – 30. Kwiecień 1936   •   Natępne imiona آلفرد ادوارد هاوسمن, A. E. Housman
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A.E. Housman cytaty

„Dwudziestojednoletni,
Słyszałem rady mędrca:
„Trwoń funty i gwinee,
Lecz nie kapitał serca,
Nie trać dla kogoś głowy –
Najgorsza to ze strat”.
Dwudziestojednoletni
Nie słucha takich rad.
Dwudziestojednoletni,
Słyszałem, co rzekł dalej:
„Kto odda komuś serce,
Sam płaci – łzą i żalem;
A nic nie zyska – poza
Nie wiedzieć jakim złem”.
Dwadzieścia dwa mam lata
I, ech, już wiem, już wiem.”

A.E. Housman

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
„The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. (ang.)
Źródło: Dwudziestojednoletni, „Dekada Literacka” nr 7, 1992, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak

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A.E. Housman: Cytaty po angielsku

“We for a certainty are not the first
Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled
Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed
Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.”

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No. 9, st. 3.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

“And how am I to face the odds
Of man’s bedevilment and God’s?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.”

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No. 12, l. 15-18.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

“The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. His opinions are determined not by his reason -- 'the bulk of mankind' says Swift 'is as well qualified for flying as for thinking' -- but by his passions; and the faintest of all human passions is the love of truth. He believes that the text of ancient authors is generally sound, not because he has acquainted himself with the elements of the problem, but because he would feel uncomfortable if he did not believe it; just as he believes, on the same cogent evidence, that he is a fine fellow, and that he will rise again from the dead.”

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Introduction to Astronomicon of Manilius, Lib I. (Cambridge University Press, [1903] 1937) p. xliii.

“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act…The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. Houseman's test for great poetry.”

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The Name and Nature of Poetry

“And, what is worse, the reader often shares the writer's prejudices, and is far too well pleased with his conclusions to examine either his premises or his reasoning. Stand on a barrel in the streets of Bagdad, and say in a loud voice, 'Twice two is four, and ginger is hot in the mouth, therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God', and your logic will probably escape criticism; or, if anyone should by chance criticise it, you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog.”

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"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921

“To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.”

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"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921

“With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.”

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A.E. Housman książka A Shropshire Lad

No. 54.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“There, like the wind through woods in riot,
Through him the gale of life blew high;
The tree of man was never quiet:
Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.”

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No. 31, st. 4.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“It is supposed that there has been progress in the science of textual criticism, and the most frivolous pretender has learned to talk superciliously about "the old unscientific days."”

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The old unscientific days are everlasting; they are here and now; they are renewed perennially by the ear which takes formulas in, and the tongue which gives them out again, and the mind which meanwhile is empty of reflexion and stuffed with self-complacency.
"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921