The Name and Nature of Poetry
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 1933
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 1933
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : Bryn Mawr College. Library
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Poets, English
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Author : J. K. Heath
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0374709351
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 : Philip Gardner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040255574
First published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951. It contains ninety-four items—articles, reviews, and comments which provide an accurate picture of how Housman the poet was seen during his lifetime and for some years beyond it. The picture which emerges is of a poet not only of popular appeal, but of great literary distinction, who was admired by the majority of reviewers and critics who discussed his work. Among those quoted are J.B. Priestley, Edmund Gosse, Cyril Connolly, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Cleanth Brooke, Stephen Spender, John Sparrow, and E.M. Forster.
Author : A.E. Housman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141919159
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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 1961-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521091404
Lovers of Housman's poetry and admirers of his scholarship have long been aware, from the Introductory Lecture of 1892 and The Name and Nature of Poetry, 1933, that he was also master of a highly individual prose style; and others besides classical students have relished the pungency of the famous preface to his edition of Manilius. Here, in addition to these, is a selection of Housman's writings, both scholarly and general, gathered from periodicals and other out-of-the-way sources, which decisively confirms his reputation as a prose stylist. The prefaces, the adversaria and the reviews, in particular, give the layman an idea of the precision and the penetration of exact scholarship. Housman's comments and judgements on other men illuminate his own nature: withdrawn, austere, even crusty, yet gentle with the unassuming; ruthless in exposure of arrogance and pretension.
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher :
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571207053
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.