num_pages: 192
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
titlecomplete: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
genres: 20th Century, World War I, LGBT, Queer, Poetry, Literature, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 982
publisher: Wordsworth Editions