Don’t forget the centenary of AE Housman’s Last Poems | Letter

TS Eliot’s The Waste Land has been getting a lot of media coverage, but there is another poet whose work is still relevant, writes Max Hunt

While the world marks the centenary of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land (Editorial, 13 April) we forget that more attention was given at the time to a collection by a very different poet. As Nick Rennison says in his book 1922, for poetry lovers “the great event” of October that year was the publication of AE Housman’s Last Poems.

Twenty-six years after the appearance of A Shropshire Lad, the new collection attracted widespread critical acclaim. For JC Squire, writing in the Observer, the 41 poems contained “scarcely a line which is not perfectly musical, scarcely a word which is not accurate and necessary”.