A. E. Housman
Subtitle: A Reassessment
Contributors: Alan W. Holden (Editor); J. Roy Birch (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 3, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780312223182
Subjects: Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; (Alfred Edward),; 1859-1936; Criticism and interpretation; Housman, A. E; Housman, A. E.
Description: "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.

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 Adalbert. Housman's poetry, like his life, is deceptively simple: this volume shows some of the complex currents below its surface."--BOOK JACKET.