‘The Receptionist’ Returns to an Office Where Cheerfully Banal Chatter Proves Deceptive
By ELYSA GARDNER
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John William Waterhouse: 'Consulting the Oracle,' detail, 1884. Via Wikimedia Commons
Poem of the Day: ‘The Oracles’
A.E. Housman had a talent, as great as any in English poetry, for making formal verse seem a simple thing for expressing a thought.
