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A Shropshire Lad
A.E. Housman; Photographs by John Hayward
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This is the first complete edition of A. E. Housman's poetry, unprecedented in the extent to which it reveals the shaping processes of his poetic thought. The text of the poems published after his death has been corrected from the manuscripts, with all variant readings recorded, and a substantial body of light verse and juvenilia is printed or collected for the first time. The extensive commentary traces the remarkable range of Housman's echoes and allusions - Biblical, Classical, and contemporary - which have never before been explored in such detail, as well as providing information on persons, places, and historical context, the dating of poems, and Housman's linguistic usage.
Authoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English
poetry -- 63 poems on the nature of friendship, the passing of
youth, the vanity of dreams, other human concerns. Long prized by
literary scholars for their perfection of form and feeling, and
loved by generations of readers for simplicity, sensitivity, direct
emotional appeal.
Originally published in 1927, this book presents a selection of
previously unprinted essays by the classical scholar John Arthur
Platt (1860-1925). A variety of figures and subjects are discussed,
both classical and otherwise, including Aristophanes, Edward
Fitzgerald, and the relationship between poetry and science. The
text also contains a preface written by A. E. Housman. This book
will be of value to anyone with an interest in Platt and his
writings.
A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's
Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the
subject. The task of bringing the edition together was one of
considerable proportion which took Housman twenty-seven years to
complete. It is now considered one of his most enduring and
important contributions to scholarship. This volume contains the
Latin text of the first book of Manilius, originally published in
1903, and then reissued in a second edition by the Cambridge
University Press in 1937. It offers a short introductory note by
Housman's friend and colleague at Trinity College, Cambridge, A. S.
F. Gow, as well as a detailed introduction by Housman himself,
tracing the manuscript history of the work and discussing
particular challenges posed by the editorial process.
A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's
Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the
subject. The task of bringing the edition together was one of
considerable proportion which took Housman twenty-seven years to
complete. It is now considered one of his most enduring and
important contributions to scholarship. This volume contains the
Latin text of the fifth and final book of Manilius, first published
in 1930, and then reissued in a second edition by the Cambridge
University Press in 1937. A short note by A. S. F. Gow regarding
the alterations is included, as is an index covering all five
volumes of the work. Housman provides his customary Latin
commentary and English preface along with a retrospective survey of
the five books and their manuscript sources.
A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's
Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the
subject. The task of bringing the edition together was one of
considerable proportion which took Housman twenty-seven years to
complete. It is now considered one of his most enduring and
important contributions to scholarship. This volume contains the
Latin text of the fourth book of Manilius, first published in 1920,
and then reissued in a second edition by the Cambridge University
Press in 1937. It offers a short note by A. S. F. Gow regarding the
alterations, as well as a preface by Housman in which he elucidates
three of the more challenging passages of verse.
A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's
Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the
subject. The task of bringing the edition together was one of
considerable proportion which took Housman twenty-seven years to
complete. It is now considered one of his most enduring and
important contributions to scholarship. This volume contains the
Latin text of the third book of Manilius, first published in 1916,
and then reissued in a second edition by the Cambridge University
Press in 1937. It offers a short note by A. S. F. Gow regarding the
alterations, as well as a preface by Housman in which he discusses
the astrological content of the work and notes the errors and
misinterpretations of previous editors.
A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's
Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the
subject. The task of bringing the edition together was one of
considerable proportion which took Housman twenty-seven years to
complete. It is now considered one of his most enduring and
important contributions to scholarship. This volume contains the
Latin text of the second book of Manilius, first published in 1912,
and then reissued in a second edition by the Cambridge University
Press in 1937. It offers a short note by A. S. F. Gow regarding the
alterations, as well as a preface by Housman in which he discusses
the astrological content of the work.
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.
A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A
Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose
elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This
Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions
by Archie Burnett and an afterword by John Sparrow. 'What are those
blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?' In this
collection, A. E. Housman's poems, including'To an Athlete Dying
Young', 'Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now' and 'When I Was
One-and-Twenty', conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued
with a poignant sense of loss and sadness. Their scope is wide -
ranging from religious doubt and doomed love to intense nostalgia
for the countryside and patriotic celebration of the life of the
soldier - and they are made all the more memorable by their
distinctive diction and perfectly modulated rhythm and sound. This
volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime,
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. This edition has
been revised by Archie Burnett and includes updated notes on the
text and indexes of first lines and titles. In his afterword, John
Sparrow discusses Housman's methods of writing and melancholic
temperament. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as
A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best
known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. If you enjoyed A
Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, you might like John Clare's
Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics.
A Shropshire Lad was first published, at Housman's own expense, in
1896 after several publishers had turned it down. At first the book
sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War, Housman's nostalgic
depiction of rural life, the book became a bestseller The main
theme of ""A Shropshire Lad"" is mortality, and advice about how we
live our lives since death can come in anytime.
Evocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred
Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three
poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary
pastoral Shropshire, Housman's verse considers the helplessness of
man, the fragility of life and the terrible effects of war, against
the background of an achingly beautiful countryside. Inspirational
for generations of readers, A Shropshire Lad, with its sweeping
themes of youth and love, has found its way into the canon of
English folksong and has been set to music by composers George
Butterworth, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams. This
beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of A. E. Housman's
A Shropshire Lad features the superb wood engravings of the
Vorticist artist and illustrator Agnes Miller Parker, and is
accompanied by an afterword by Dr David Butterfield, Editor of the
Housman Society Journal. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the
Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift
editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's
Library are books to love and treasure.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet
of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and
critical reactions they express in their introductions, the
selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to some of
the greatest poets in history.
Both the author and the date of this five-volume poem, the first
Western document to link the houses of the zodiac with the course
of human affairs, are uncertain. The author's name may be Marcus
Manilius, or Manlius, or Mallius, and the latest datable event
mentioned in the books themselves is the disastrous defeat of
Varus' Roman legions by the German tribes in 9 CE. The writing
shows knowledge of the work of Lucretius, but the work is not
referred to by any subsequent writer, suggesting that it was never
widely disseminated. A manuscript was rediscovered by Poggio
Bracciolini in 1416 or 1417, and editions were produced by Scaliger
and Bentley, but this immensely erudite edition of 1903 1930 by the
scholar and poet A. E. Housman (1859 1936) is regarded as
authoritative. Volume 4 describes the influence of the zodiacal
signs on the people born under them.
Both the author and the date of this five-volume poem, the first
Western document to link the houses of the zodiac with the course
of human affairs, are uncertain. The author's name may be Marcus
Manilius, or Manlius, or Mallius, and the latest datable event
mentioned in the books themselves is the disastrous defeat of
Varus' Roman legions by the German tribes in 9 CE. The writing
shows knowledge of the work of Lucretius, but the work is not
referred to by any subsequent writer, suggesting that it was never
widely disseminated. A manuscript was rediscovered by Poggio
Bracciolini in 1416 or 1417, and editions were produced by Scaliger
and Bentley, but this immensely erudite edition of 1903 1930 by the
scholar and poet A. E. Housman (1859 1936) is regarded as
authoritative. Volume 5 (which is unfinished) describes the
non-zodiacal signs and their influence.
Both the author and the date of this five-volume poem, the first
Western document to link the houses of the zodiac with the course
of human affairs, are uncertain. The author's name may be Marcus
Manilius, or Manlius, or Mallius, and the latest datable event
mentioned in the books themselves is the disastrous defeat of
Varus' Roman legions by the German tribes in 9 CE. The writing
shows knowledge of the work of Lucretius, but the work is not
referred to by any subsequent writer, suggesting that it was never
widely disseminated. A manuscript was rediscovered by Poggio
Bracciolini in 1416 or 1417, and editions were produced by Scaliger
and Bentley, but this immensely erudite edition of 1903 1930 by the
scholar and poet A. E. Housman (1859 1936) is regarded as
authoritative. Volume 1 covers the creation and arrangement of the
heavens and their division into spheres.
Both the author and the date of this five-volume poem, the first
Western document to link the houses of the zodiac with the course
of human affairs, are uncertain. The author's name may be Marcus
Manilius, or Manlius, or Mallius, and the latest datable event
mentioned in the books themselves is the disastrous defeat of
Varus' Roman legions by the German tribes in 9 CE. The writing
shows knowledge of the work of Lucretius, but the work is not
referred to by any subsequent writer, suggesting that it was never
widely disseminated. A manuscript was rediscovered by Poggio
Bracciolini in 1416 or 1417, and editions were produced by Scaliger
and Bentley, but this immensely erudite edition of 1903 1930 by the
scholar and poet A. E. Housman (1859 1936) is regarded as
authoritative. Volume 2 describes the signs of the zodiac, their
characteristics and their subdivisions.
Both the author and the date of this five-volume poem, the first
Western document to link the houses of the zodiac with the course
of human affairs, are uncertain. The author's name may be Marcus
Manilius, or Manlius, or Mallius, and the latest datable event
mentioned in the books themselves is the disastrous defeat of
Varus' Roman legions by the German tribes in 9 CE. The writing
shows knowledge of the work of Lucretius, but the work is not
referred to by any subsequent writer, suggesting that it was never
widely disseminated. A manuscript was rediscovered by Poggio
Bracciolini in 1416 or 1417, and editions were produced by Scaliger
and Bentley, but this immensely erudite edition of 1903 1930 by the
scholar and poet A. E. Housman (1859 1936) is regarded as
authoritative. Volume 3 describes the working out of horoscopes.
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