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Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime.

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Frontispiece: A.E. Housman - List of Plates - Acknowledgements - Note on the Referencing System - Preface to the 1996 Reprint - Introduction: `All that need be known' - A Worcestershire Lad - Oxford - The Years of Penance - `Picked out of the gutter' - Cambridge I - Cambridge II - The Scholar - The Poet - Epilogue - Notes and References - Index

A E Housman A Critical Biography

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: 3/31/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780333656013, 978-0333656013
      ISBN10: 0333656016
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime.

      Table of Contents
      Frontispiece: A.E. Housman - List of Plates - Acknowledgements - Note on the Referencing System - Preface to the 1996 Reprint - Introduction: `All that need be known' - A Worcestershire Lad - Oxford - The Years of Penance - `Picked out of the gutter' - Cambridge I - Cambridge II - The Scholar - The Poet - Epilogue - Notes and References - Index

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