The road of danger, guilt, and shame
Subtitle: the lonely way of A.E. Housman
By: Carol Efrati
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780838639061
Subjects: Homosexuality and literature; Homoseksualiteit; Criticism and interpretation; Homosexualität; Lyrik; History
Description: This book is a close study of A.E. Housman's poetry, including light verse, parodies, juvenilia and workshop material, as well as the well-known poems of A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, and Additional Poems. It traces the homosexual parables written as light verse and the gay subtext and implications of the heterosexual and ambiguous poems as well as discusses the more overtly gay lyrics. This book demonstrates the depths and complexity of even the most seemingly pellucid poems, considering the poetry in the light the individual poems shed on each other as well as that provided by Housman's other writings and his life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-364) and index.

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