BBC Proms - 2008 - Proms Literary Festival - Proms Literary Festival: AE Housman

As part of the 2008 Proms Literary Festival, Ian McMillan and Professor Christopher Ricks discuss the life and poetry of AE Housman. Best known now for A Shropshire Lad, Housman was one of the most widely read poets of his time and was praised by TS Eliot for his 'masterful, witty, controversial talent'.