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• Collected Poems of A. E. Houseman (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

  A. E. Housman

  
  Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of it mannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.
  
   

• A Shropshire Lad (Dover Thrift Editions)

  A. E. Housman

  
  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.
  
   

• Collected Poems

  A. E. Housman

  
  This volume constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman’s verse as it was established in 1939, three years after his death. In 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.
  
  
   

• Last Poems

  A. E. Housman

  
  LAST POEMS - 1922 - I PUBLISH these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write tnuch more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which in the early months of 189.5 I wrote the greater part of my other book, nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came and it is best that what I have written should be printed while I am here to see it through the press and control its spelling and punctuation. -4bout a quarter of this matter belongs to the April of the present pear, but most of it to dates between 1895 and 1910. September 1922 CONTENTS NO. FAGS I. Beyond the moor and mountain crest . . XI 11. As I gird on for fighting . 14 111. Her strong enchantments failing . 1.5 IV. Oh hard is the bed they have made him . . 16 V. The Queen she sent to look for me . G VI. I listed at home for a lancer . 19 VII. In valleys green and still . . 21 VIII. Soldier from the wars returning . 23 IX. The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers . 24 X. Could man be drunk for ever . . 26 XI. Yonder see the morning blink . 27 XII. The laws of God, the laws of man . . 28 XIII. What sound awakened me, I wonder . - 30 XIV. The night my father got me . 33 XV. He stood, and heard the steeple . 35 XVI. Star and corona1 and bell . - 36 7 17 CONTENTS NO. XVII. The Wain upon the northern steep . XVIII. The rain, it streams on stone and hillock XIX. In midnights of November XX. The night is freezing fast . XXI. The fairies break their dances . XXII. The sloe was lost in Aower . XXIII. In the morning, in the morning . XXIV. He is here, Uranias son . XXV. Tis mute, the word they went to hear XXVI. The half-moon westers low, my love XXVII. The sigh that heaves the grasses . XXVIII. Now dreary dawns the eastern light . XXIX. Wake not for the world-heard thunder XXX. I walked alone and thinking . XXXI. Onward led the road again . XXXII. When I would llluse in boyhood . XXXIII. When the eye of day is shut . XXXIV. The orchards half the way . XXXV. When first my way to fair I took . 8 NO. l4f.F NXSVI. West anrl away the vhecls oTdarkness roll . 70 XSXII. Tlicse, in the day whcn lieavcn was falling . 71 SSXVIII. Oh stny at liumc, Iny Iatl, ancl plough . . 72 SSSIS. When suninlcrs end is nighing . 73 XL. Tell me not here, it needs not saying . 75 SLI. When lads were home from labour . 77 I.lTell to the zaooda izo nore, The laurels all are cvct, The bowers are bare qf bay That once the Mt4se.s wore The year draws in the day And soon will evening shut The laurels all are eut, Well to the zooods no more. Oh 7elZ no more, no more 70 the leafy woods away, To the high -wild tuoods of lauel Ancl the bozuers of hay 120 more.
  
   

• A. E. Housman (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse)

  A. E. Housman

  
  Poetry Selected and with an Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst.

  Alan Hollinghurst called A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad "the most vital English poetry collection of the 1890s and perhaps of the whole period from the death of Tennyson until Hardy's Satire of Circumstances." Drawing heavily on this volume, Hollinghurst gathers here a resonant collection of verse from Housman's entire oeuvre that, with its emphasis on the inevitable decay of youth and beauty and on the touching bonds of male friendship, was anthemic for the generation that went to war in 1914.

  
   

• A Shropshire Lad

  A. E. Housman, Randolph Brown, William S. Braithwaite

  
  
   

• A. E. Housman: A Reassessment

  
  This collection of essays was conceived as part of the centenary celebrations of the first publication in 1896 of one of the most popular collections of poetry ever written--A Shropshire Lad--a collection never out of print in a hundred years. Yet Housman was a recluse, an austere classicist of great renown who devoted his academic life to the correction of ancient texts. He filled his poems with the lives, loves, and deaths of simple country people whose emotions are intense and often violent, but lived his own life in stoic acceptance of his loveless, arid existence. Why his life should have been so intentionally empty of emotion raises questions about Housman's own sexuality and the relationship he had with his friend Moses Jackson and Jackson's brother Afalbert. Housman's poetry, like his life, is deceptively simple: this volume shows some of the complex currents below the surface.
  
  
   

• A Shropshire Lad

  A.E. (Elinore Blaisdell, Illustrator) Housman

  
  Black and white pen-and-ink drawings by Elinore Blaisdell. Some of Housman's best-known works, including "When I Was One-and-Twenty" and "To an Athlete Dying Young," among the 63 short poems making up this book. Originally published in 1896; this edition appeared toward the end of Housman's life.
  
   

• A Shropshire Lad

  A. E. Housman

  
  Then My Soul Within Me Took Up The Blackbird's Strain, And Still Beside The Horses Along The Dewy Lane It Sang The Song Again.
  
   

• Collected Poems and Selected Prose (Twentieth Century Classics)

  A. E. Housman

  
  
   

• THE COLLECTED POEMS OF A. E. HOUSMAN

  
  Wartime edition with notes to the text, chronology of poems, & indext of first lines and titles. Including: A Shropshire Lad; Last Poems; More Poems.
  
   

• English Authors Series - A. E. Housman Revisited (English Authors Series)

  Hoagwood

  
  Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts

  Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

  Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features:

  • A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works
  • A brief biography of the author
  • An accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author
  • Aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index
  • A readable style presented in a manageable length
  
   

• The name and nature of poetry (Leslie Stephen lecture)

  A. E Housman

  
  
   

• The Name and Nature of Poetry: and Other Selected Prose

  A. E. Housman

  
  Lovers of Housman's poetry have generally been aware, from the Introductory Lecture (1892) to The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933), that he was a master of English prose. For better or worse, these are the opening gun and the last post of modernism.
  
   

• The name and nature of poetry: The Leslie Stephen lecture delivered at Cambridge 9 May 1933

  A. E Housman

  
  
   

• The Poems of A. E. Housman (Oxford English Texts)

  A. E. Housman

  
  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.
  
   

• Poetry and Prose

  A.E. Housman

  
  
   

• A Shropshire Lad

  A. E. Housman

  
  Publication date unknown. Decorative cover and illustrations printed in rust ink. Two poems omitted from this edition, "The Merry Guide" and "The True Lover."
  
   

• A Shropshire Lad

  
  Complete and unabridged text of "A Shropshire Lad". Poetry by A.E. Housman
  
   

• A Shropshire Lad

  A E Housman

  
  book is in a slip cover, decorations by Aldren Watson