Don’t forget the centenary of AE Housman’s Last Poems

The ‘great event of 1922’ for many poetry lovers was the publication of AE Housman’s Last Poems. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis/Getty Images

While the world marks the centenary of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land (Editorial, 13 April) we forget that more attention was given at the time to a collection by a very different poet. As Nick Rennison says in his book 1922, for poetry lovers “the great event” of October that year was the publication of AE Housman’s Last Poems.

Twenty-six years after the appearance of A Shropshire Lad, the new collection attracted widespread critical acclaim. For JC Squire, writing in the Observer, the 41 poems contained “scarcely a line which is not perfectly musical, scarcely a word which is not accurate and necessary”.