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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.
This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De
rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of
our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close
investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers
throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into
the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the
indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended
analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse
the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh
inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most
important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the
work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new
Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the
interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives
additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in
fifteenth-century Italy.
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions,
most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once
a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical
scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines.
Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis,
and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his
private life, no previous work has focused on Housman the classical
scholar; yet it is upon scholarship that Housman most wished to
leave his mark. This timely collection of papers by leading
scholars reassesses the breadth and significance of Housman's
contribution to classical scholarship in both his published and
unpublished writings, and discusses how his mantle has been passed
on to later generations of classicists.
There is no journal with a livelier and richer history than The
Spectator. As well as being the world's oldest current affairs
magazine, none has been closer to spheres of power and influence in
Britain. Since its first appearance in 1828, during the dying days
of the Georgian era, The Spectator has been ready to spar - with
the Tories and their Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, with a
corrupt political system, and with the lacklustre literary world of
the day. Over the subsequent 54 Prime Ministers, The Spectator has
not just watched the world go by but has waded into the fray: it
has campaigned on consistently liberal lines, fighting for voters'
rights, free trade, the free press and the decriminalisation of
homosexuality, while offering open-minded criticism of every modern
taboo and orthodoxy. 10,000 Not Out marks the magazine's 10,000th
issue by recounting the turbulent and tortuous tale of its history,
of 192 years chock-full of crises and campaigns, of literary flair
and barbed wit. Eight chapters chart the evolution of the title -
from radical weekly newspaper, to moralising Victorian guardian, to
wartime watchdog, to satirical magazine, to High-Tory counsellor,
to the irreverent but influential Spectator of the twenty-first
century. The book weaves together copious quotations from the
magazine's unparalleled archive, the contemporary press, private
letters and staff anecdote.
This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De
rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of
our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close
investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers
throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into
the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the
indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended
analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse
the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh
inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most
important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the
work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new
Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the
interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives
additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in
fifteenth-century Italy.
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions,
most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once
a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical
scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines.
Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis,
and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his
private life, no previous work has focused on Housman the classical
scholar; yet it is upon scholarship that Housman most wished to
leave his mark. This timely collection of papers by leading
scholars reassesses the breadth and significance of Housman's
contribution to classical scholarship in both his published and
unpublished writings, and discusses how his mantle has been passed
on to later generations of classicists.
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