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Author : Alfred Edward Housman,Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571207057
In this series a contemporary poet selects and introduces another poet of a different generation whom they have particularly admired. This selection of A.E. Housman poems are selected by Alan Hollinghurst.
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0828314551
A Shropshire Lad (1896) is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housman's own expense after several publishers had turned it down, much to the surprise of his colleagues and students. At first the book sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War, Housman's nostalgic depiction of rural life and young men's early deaths struck a chord with English readers and the book became a bestseller. Later, World War I further increased its popularity. Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 - 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian taste, and to many early twentieth century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell) both before and after the First World War. Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself. Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at UCL and later, at Cambridge. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.
Author : Norman Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349245840
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime. Reissued to mark the centenary of the publication of A Shropshire Lad, Norman Page's highly-acclaimed biography is regarded as the most complete account of Housman's life and career available. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including much unpublished material, Norman Page provides us with a fascinating insight into Housman the poet, the scholar and the man. `By far the best biography of Housman we have ...' - Andrew Motion, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Richard Perceval Graves
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011619569
"Hailed in Britain as a literary event, this important biography of A. E. Housman - based on extensive research and a wealth of never-before-published material - will be the definitive work on this scholar-poet for years to come. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) is best known for his first volume of poems, A Shropshire Lad, in print continually since it was first published in 1896. A classical scholar, he was a man of many interests, including botany, astronomy, English and American literature, and astrology. Yet he was an enigma even to his closest friends." --From jacekt
Author : Edgar Vincent
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1783272414
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was an English classical scholar and poet who had an enormous influence on many British poets and musicians.
Author : Otto Skutsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Classicists
ISBN : UOM:39015011299529
Author : A. E. Housman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547312673
'A Shropshire Lad' is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. The book contains several repeated themes. It is not a connected narrative; though the "I" of the poems is in two cases named as Terence (VIII, LXII), the "Shropshire Lad" of the title, he is not to be identified with Housman himself. Not all the poems are in the same voice and there are various kinds of dialogue between the speaker and others, including conversations beyond the grave.
Author : A. E. Housman
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1420938932
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was an English poet and classical scholar whose work became a major force in turn-of-the-century English poetry. Unlike his contemporaries, Houseman's poetry does not qualify as Romantic, Victorian or Modernist, and is not overly sentimental or optimistic; instead, his deeply pessimistic and ironic poetry, written clearly and succinctly, earned Housman notoriety as one of the foremost classicists of his time. His best-known work, "A Shropshire Lad", is a cycle of 63 poems set in a half-imaginative Shropshire, and explores themes of death, the fleetingness of love, and the passing of youth. The poems became increasingly popular at the time of World War I because of their depiction of brave English soldiers. In the early 1920s, Houseman's closest friend and old Oxford roommate, Moses Jackson, was dying, prompting Housman to compile his "Last Poems" for Jackson to read. The forty-one previously unpublished poems were so titled because Housman felt his inspiration had been exhausted. Indeed, these proved to be his last published works.
Author : A. E. Housman,William Rothenstein
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528789783
“Last Poems” is a 1936 collection of poetry by A. E. Housman. The poems include: “The West”, “Llic Jacet”, “Grenadier”, “Lancer”, “The Deserter”, “The Culprit”, “Eight O'Clock”, “Spring Morning”, “Astronomy”, “Epithalamium”, “The Oracles”, “Sinner's Rue”, “Hell's Gate”, “Revolution”, “Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries”, and “Fancy's Knell”. Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936), also known as A. E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar considered to be one of the greatest scholars who ever lived. A fantastic collection of classic poetry by a master of the form. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with a chapter from “Twenty-Four Portraits” by William Rothenstein.
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015005655504
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher : C Oet T Oxford English Texts
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015040365317
This is the first complete edition of A. E. Housman's poetry, unprecedented in the extent to which it reveals the shaping processes of his poetic thought. To the major poetry of The Collected Poems (1939) it adds a substantial body of light verse and juvenilia, some of it printed, orcollected, for the first time; and it revises the texts - particularly the posthumously published poems and notebook fragments - in the light of a comprehensive survey of manuscript and printed sources, recording all textual variants. As well as charting his compositional practices, the editionilluminates the many sources, from Biblical and Classical to contemporary, which influenced Housman - consciously or unconsciously - in his choice of ideas, images, and phraseology. Drawing on the poet's two commonplace books, works he is known to have read, and volumes from his library, theeditor's commentary traces the remarkable range of his echoes and allusions, which have never before been explored in such detail. The introduction and commentary also cover dating and other textual matters, information on persons, places, and historical context, and Housman's linguisticusage.
Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374709358
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness 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 coun - tryside, 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 influ - enced 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.
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1853264113
Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.
Author : A.E. Housman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141919157
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.
Author : A.E. Housman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141910888
A. E. Housman, being one of the most famous and widely read poets of the early twentieth century, is certainly worthy of praise. His 'Collected Poems' are therefore a valuable read because they allow readers to gain an impression of the author's mind, opinions and lifestyle. Furthermore, they simultaneously depict a man who was deeply pessimistic and obsessed with death, and, on the other hand, illustrate a man who was also very much concerned with love, youth, life and the fleetingness of the these concepts.It is easy to understand why Housman's sensitive and sympathetic depictions of heroic English soldiers influenced and affected his readers, as his poetry is often written in an uncomplicated, yet sensitive style, which allows readers to feel as if they are witnessing events almost as the poet writes them down. These poems are also intriguing to read if you are a Shakespeare fan, as it is possible to spot many Shakespeare references in Housman's writing. A glossary or footnotes at the back of this book would be appreciated in any further editions, in order to allow readers to gain more understanding of the other poets and authors that Housman was influenced by. In brief, this collection presents the literary highlights of Housman's career, and this will be most appreciated by readers new to Housman's poetry.