Pale Fire on A Shropshire Lad: “Alfred Housman (1859-1936), whose collection The Shropshire Lad vies with the In Memoriam of Alfred Tennyson”
The Bully Pulpit on A Shropshire Lad: “He published early stories by Damon Runyan and Joseph Conrad, introduced A. E. Housman's Shropshire Lad to the American public, and provided a forum for the new work of William Butler Yeats and Moira O'Neill.”
Atonement on A Shropshire Lad: “Beyond the compass were his copies of Auden's Poems and Housman's A Shropshire Lad.”
The Secret History on With Rue My Heart Is Laden: “[Henry] read, inaudibly and without comment, a short poem by A. E. Housman. The poem was called 'With Rue My Heart Is Laden.'”