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AEH is 77 years old and recently deceased. As he
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Textual criticism is a science whose subject is literature, as botany is the science of flowers and zoology of animals and geology of rocks.
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The fudge and flim-flam, the hocus-pocus and plain dishonesty that parade as scholarship in the journals would exited the professional admiration of a hawker of patent medicines.
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, Grove Press, 1997, pp. 38.
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Read a review of The Invention of Love by The New Yorker, including a brief biography of A.E. Housman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/02/19/lost-horizon
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