The Cloisters Embraces the Ancient Americas, With Uneven Results
By MARIO NAVES
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'Cherry Blossoms,' by William Henry Holmes, watercolor. Smithsonian Museum of American Art via Wikimedia Commons
Poem of the Day: ‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now’
A.E. Housman had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple.
