The Letters Of A E Housman

Author : Archie Burnett
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191568534

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The Letters of A. E. Housman by Archie Burnett Pdf

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.

Author : Archie Burnett
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198184964

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The Letters of A. E. Housman by Archie Burnett Pdf

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.

Author : Alfred E. Housman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:836540039

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The Letters of A.E. Housman by Alfred E. Housman Pdf

Author : Edward Morgan Forster,Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:25157923

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Letters by Edward Morgan Forster,Alfred Edward Housman Pdf

2 ALsS. Thanks Housman for publishing Last poems which "crossed the line that divides a book from a companion," as did A Shropshire lad. He also sends a volume of short stories to Housman. "I don't know whether there is such a thing as impersonal affection, but the words best express the feeling I have had towards you, through your poems, for the last thirty years."

Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : English poetry
ISBN : PSU:000002023267

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A Shropshire Lad by Alfred Edward Housman Pdf

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Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Laurence Housman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0812218159

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War Letters of Fallen Englishmen by Laurence Housman Pdf

More than eight million young men perished during the First World War—a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war in order to remind the living of those who were lost in the name of the British crown—brothers, husbands, fathers, sons. This collection provides, in the very words of those who participated and died in combat, the closest approximation possible to the experience of war. Carefully selected from thousands of letters, those in this collection are poignant, powerful, and graphic and were chosen for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.

Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108028248758

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Letters from A.E. Housman to E.H. Blakeney by Alfred Edward Housman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472521071

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A.E. Housman by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : D. Antoine Sutton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527509474

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Introducing A.E. Housman (1859-1936) by D. Antoine Sutton Pdf

This volume is pivotal reading for laypersons looking for an accurate understanding of the private life and public career of A.E. Housman. Furthermore, it is also essential for any reader seeking to recover a truer image of the Victorian man who, during his lifetime, issued two collections of Romantic poems, A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. It will be of particular interest to history buffs, poets, professors and students of classical studies, and instructors in literary criticism, given that it sketches Housman’s biography and examines in detail his scholarship.

Author : Henry Maas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0846400901

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Letters of A.E. Houseman by Henry Maas Pdf

Author : Richard Perceval Graves
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Naiditch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004663657

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A.E. Housman at University College London by Naiditch Pdf

Author : Mark Peel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : England
ISBN : 1858214009

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The Land of Lost Content by Mark Peel Pdf

In this, the first biography to be published of Anthony Chenevix-Trench, Mark Peel tells the story of th e headmaster whose idiosyncratic style of leadership failed him in the most important challenge of his career. '