A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad
Title A Shropshire Lad PDF eBook
Author Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher
Pages 168
Release 1908
Genre Cities and towns
ISBN

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The Letters of A. E. Housman

The Letters of A. E. Housman
Title The Letters of A. E. Housman PDF eBook
Author Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 1290
Release 2007-03-29
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0198184964

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The Letters of A. E. Housman is a scholarly edition of over 2200 letters. (The previous edition, edited by Henry Maas, contained just over 880.) The letters cover the whole range of Housman's daily activities, whether he writes as poet, Professor of Latin, son, brother, uncle, friend, or citizen. Thus they allow the fullest possible revelation of a man whose reserve was legendary. He emerges as a more amiable, more sociable, more generous, more painstaking, and more complexperson than has previously been realized. In most cases the source of the text is a manuscript, and this has resulted in a text that is more accurate and more complete than any previously available. Accompanying the text are notes covering persons and places, poetry, classical scholarship, publishinghistory, and literary allusion and echo.

The Letters of A. E. Housman

The Letters of A. E. Housman
Title The Letters of A. E. Housman PDF eBook
Author Archie Burnett
Publisher Clarendon Press
Pages 1296
Release 2007-03-29
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0191568538

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The Letters of A. E. Housman is a scholarly edition of over 2200 letters. (The previous edition, edited by Henry Maas, contained just over 880.) The letters cover the whole range of Housman's daily activities, whether he writes as poet, Professor of Latin, son, brother, uncle, friend, or citizen. Thus they allow the fullest possible revelation of a man whose reserve was legendary. He emerges as a more amiable, more sociable, more generous, more painstaking, and more complex person than has previously been realized. In most cases the source of the text is a manuscript, and this has resulted in a text that is more accurate and more complete than any previously available. Accompanying the text are notes covering persons and places, poetry, classical scholarship, publishing history, and literary allusion and echo.

A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems

A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
Title A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems PDF eBook
Author A.E. Housman
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 288
Release 2010-07-29
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0141919159

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A. E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, whose poems conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss. They are expressed in simple rhythms, yet show a fine ear for the subtleties of metre and alliteration. His scope is wide - ranging from religious doubt to intense nostalgia for the countryside. This volume brings together 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) and 'Last Poems' (1922), along with the posthumous selections 'More Poems' and 'Additional Poems', and three translations of extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides that display his mastery of Classical literature.

Housman Country

Housman Country
Title Housman Country PDF eBook
Author Peter Parker
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 616
Release 2017-06-20
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0374709351

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“Parker’s beautiful Housman Country tells you everything you want to know about the life and influence of England’s most satirised but inimitable poets.” —Evening Standard A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English countryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a century ago, and the book has never been out of print. In Housman Country, Peter Parker explores the lives of A. E. Housman and his most famous book, and in doing so shows how A Shropshire Lad has permeated English life and culture since its publication. The poems were taken to war by soldiers who wanted to carry England in their pockets, were adapted by composers trying to create a new kind of English music, and have influenced poetry, fiction, music, and drama right up to the present day. Everyone has a personal “land of lost content” with “blue remembered hills,” and Housman has been a tangible and far-reaching presence in a startling range of work, from the war poets and Ralph Vaughan Williams to Inspector Morse and Morrissey. Housman Country is a vivid exploration of England and Englishness, in which Parker maps out terrain that is as historical and emotional as it is topographical. “[A] rich blend of literary criticism and cultural history.” —The Spectator

A.E. Housman

A.E. Housman
Title A.E. Housman PDF eBook
Author Christopher Stray
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Pages 0
Release 2013-12-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781472533609

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A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private life, no previous work has focused on Housman the classical scholar; yet it is upon scholarship that Housman most wished to leave his mark. This timely collection of papers by leading scholars reassesses the breadth and significance of Housman's contribution to classical scholarship in both his published and unpublished writings, and discusses how his mantle has been passed on to later generations of classicists.

The Manuscript Poems of A. E. Housman

The Manuscript Poems of A. E. Housman
Title The Manuscript Poems of A. E. Housman PDF eBook
Author Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 166
Release 1955
Genre
ISBN 1452912467

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