A Shropshire Lad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Shropshire Lad write by Alfred Edward Housman. This book was released on 1908. A Shropshire Lad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A. E. Housman write by NA NA. This book was released on 2016-04-30. A. E. Housman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Housman Country
Housman Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Housman Country write by Peter Parker. This book was released on 2017-06-20. Housman Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A.E. Housman
A.E. Housman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A.E. Housman write by Christopher Stray. This book was released on 2013-11-01. A.E. Housman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A. E. Housman write by Richard Perceval Graves. This book was released on 2014-06-05. A. E. Housman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
