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 ...
Authoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English poetry. Housman probes, with poignant beauty, the nature of friendship, the passing of youth, the vanity of dreams, other themes.
In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired.
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The complete editions of A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems together with an introduction by Keith Hale that ties the poems to their historical root: Housman's love for Moses Jackson, the friend with whom Housman shared rooms ...
This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-A Shropshire Lad by Alfred Edward HousmanThe purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements ...
Yet their simple language, strong musical cadences and direct emotional appeal have won these works a wide audience among general readers as well.
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was an English poet and classical scholar whose work became a major force in turn-of-the-century English poetry.
Accompanying the text are notes covering persons and places, poetry, classical scholarship, publishing history, and literary allusion and echo.