A. E. Housman: A Reassessment
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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 ... Read more
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. Less
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  • 8.5 X 5.51 X 0.69 in
  • 225
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • November 16, 1999
  • English
  • 9780312223182
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Paul Ginsborg is Professor of Contemporary European History in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Florence. His previous publications include Daniele Manin and the Venetian Revolutio...
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