The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman

Housman, A. E.

ISBN 10: 0805005471 / ISBN 13: 9780805005479

Published by Holt Paperbacks (edition Revised), 1971

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (edition Revised)
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805005471
• ISBN 13: 9780805005479
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Revised.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

"Housman’s singular vision seized hold of the English imagination, inspiring not just a literary following but a generation of composers, like George Butterworth and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who sought to do musically what Housman had done with verse: to create a new and authentically English kind of song."
―The New Yorker

Housman's elegant, resonant poems have been popular for over a century. This volume constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman's verse as it was established in 1939, three years after his death. It contains A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, the Additional Poems, and the three translations from A.W. Pollard's anthology, Odes from the Greek Dramatists.

About the Author

A. E. Housman (1859-1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. A professor of Latin at University College London and the University of Cambridge, he was regarded as one of the foremost classicists of his time. He wrote the widely popular A Shropshire Lad, as well as the later collections Last Poems and More Poems.