11-30-2020, 03:25 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Abu Dhabi
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Originally Posted by elphenor
A.E. Houseman
A Shropshire Lad and other collection poems
this is essential London sadboy poetry that I heard about because Ezra Pound has a poem where he makes fun of him called "Mr. Housman's message"
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He...embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler. During World War II and the Holocaust in Italy, he made hundreds of paid radio broadcasts for the Italian government, including in German-occupied Italy, attacking the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, above all, Jews, as a result of which he was arrested in 1945 by American forces in Italy on charges of treason. He spent months in a U.S. military camp in Pisa, including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage. Deemed unfit to stand trial, he was incarcerated in St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years.
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Sounds like a lovely chap.
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