Angels and Ministers and Other Plays - The Travellers' Library No. 17

Jonathan Cape, London, 1938 reprint, good condition with dustwrapper

Imaginary portraits of political characters done in dialogue - Queen Victoria, Disraeli, Gladstone, Parnell, Joseph Chamberlain, and Woodrow Wilson. Housman has the quality to see ridicule in a beloved object without loving the object the less. These eminent Victorians are transfixed in typical attitudes...