Housman Country

Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374709358

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Housman Country by Peter Parker Pdf

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 : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349622795

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A. E. Housman by NA NA Pdf

This collection of essays was conceived as part of the centenary celebrations of the first publication in 1896 of one of the most popular collections of poetry ever written - A Shropshire Lad - a collection never out of print in a hundred years. Yet Housman was a recluse, an austere classicist of great renown who devoted his academic life to the correction of ancient texts. He filled his poems with the lives, loves, and deaths of simple country people whose emotions are intense and often violent, but lived his own life in stoic acceptance of his loveless, arid existence. Why his life should have been so intentionally empty of emotion raises questions about Housman's own sexuality and the relationship he had with his friend Moses Jackson and Jackson's brother Afalbert. Housman's poetry, like his life, is deceptively simple: this volume shows some of the complex currents below the surface.

Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408706145

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Housman Country by Peter Parker Pdf

Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic? In March 1896 a small volume of sixty-three poems was published by the small British firm of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd in an edition of 500 copies, priced at half-a-crown each. The author was not a professional poet, but a thirty-seven-year-old professor of Latin at University College, London called Alfred Edward Housman who had been obliged to pay £30 towards the cost of publication. Although slow to sell at first, A Shropshire Lad went on to become one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and has never been out of print. As well as being a publishing phenomenon, the book has had an influence on English culture and notions of what 'England' means, both in England itself and abroad, out of all proportion to its apparent scope. Housman Country will not only look at how A Shropshire Lad came to be written and became a publishing and cultural phenomenon, but will use the poems as a prism through which to examine England and Englishness. The book contains a full transcript of A Shropshire lad itself, also making it a superb present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : England
ISBN : IND:30000093215618

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T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Blocksidge
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782843313

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A. E. Housman by Martin Blocksidge Pdf

A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a professional poet, always making quite clear that his 'proper job' was as a Professor of Latin. Housman's fame as a poet has often obscured the fact that he was the leading British classical scholar of his generation, and a Cambridge Professor. It has also sometimes been suggested that Housman's two areas of activity are the sign of a flawed or 'divided' personality. A.E. Housman: A Single Life argues that there is no fundamental tension between Housman the poet and Housman the scholar, and his career is presented very much as that of a working academic who also wrote poetry. The book gives a full account of what Housman described as 'the great and real troubles of my early manhood', and in particular his unrequited and life-long love for his undergraduate friend Moses Jackson. It resists the temptation to classify Housman too exclusively as a melancholic, and is sceptical about Housman's reputed rudeness and misanthropy, pointing out that, though Housman was famously aloof in manner, he was notably loyal and generous, courteous in his daily dealings and generally liked by those who knew him. He also possessed a highly developed sense of the absurd and a ready and often disconcerting wit, features which characterised not only his letters and miscellaneous writings, but also, famously, much of his scholarly work.

Author : Richard Perceval Graves
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571309474

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A. E. Housman by Richard Perceval Graves Pdf

A. E. Housman, romantic poet and classical scholar, is best-known as the author of A Shropshire Lad and the meticulous editor of Manilius, the Latin poet of astronomy. In this first full biography, Richard Perceval Graves convincingly reconciles the two apparently conflicting sides of Housman's personality, and reassesses the reputation of a man who was something of a mystery even to his closest friends. 'This is bound to become the standard life.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Dispassionate and well-researched.' Philip Larkin, Guardian

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1959-03
Category : Art
ISBN : CHI:096365634

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Country Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Country life
ISBN : UOM:39015082309124

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Country Life Illustrated by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oliver Tearle
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473666023

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Britain by the Book by Oliver Tearle Pdf

What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent? How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world? Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales? A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers' haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We'll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.

Author : A. S. F. Gow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521136709

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A. E. Housman by A. S. F. Gow Pdf

A study of A. E. Housman by his friend and colleague A. S. F. Gow, first published in 1936 just months after Housman's death.

Author : A. E. Housman
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781535867696

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A Study Guide for A. E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A. E. Housman Pdf

Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OSU:32435058013244

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A Shropshire Lad by Alfred Edward Housman Pdf

Author : Housman Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000025519186

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Housman Society Journal by Housman Society Pdf

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0803263333

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Willa Cather in Europe by Willa Cather Pdf

Willa Cather was twenty-eight years old in the summer of 1902 when she saw England and France for the first time. Behind her stretched the Nebraska fields of her childhood and still ahead of her the world as it belongs only to great writers. The 1902 journey, coming ten years before she made her literary mark with O Pioneers!, was unrepeatable, special in its effects on her artistic development. After disembarking at Liverpool, she toured the Shropshire country, got swallowed up by London, and then crossed the Channel to other skies—to Rouen, Paris, and the Riviera. These fourteen travel articles, written for a newspaper in Lincoln, Nebraska, and eventually collected and published in book form in 1956, are striking for first impressions colored by a future novelist's feeling for history and for beauty in unexpected forms.

Author : Brian Oliver Murdoch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004400948

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The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander by Brian Oliver Murdoch Pdf

A study of the literary reception of the love-story of Hero and Leander and its popularity from classical times to the present in different genres, from epigram to epic, and including drama, opera, burlesques and modern experimental works.