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A. E. Housman (1859–1936)

Author of A Shropshire Lad

Includes the names: A Housman, Housman A E., A. E Houseman, A. E. Housman, A. E. Housman, A. E. Houseman, Alfred E. Housman, Alfred Edward Houseman, colour decorations by Edw A. Wilson ( Edward ) A. E. Housman

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Works by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad 1,113 copies, 13 reviews
Complete Poems 665 copies, 6 reviews
More Poems 118 copies
Last Poems 92 copies
Collected Poems and Selected Prose 49 copies
The Name and Nature of Poetry and Other Selected Prose 40 copies
The name and nature of poetry 39 copies, 1 review
A. E. Housman: Poems Selected by Alan Hollinghurst 17 copies
The letters of A. E. Housman [ed. Maas] 15 copies
Introductory lecture: 1892 13 copies
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman: Volume 1, 1882-1897 10 copies, 1 review
The Poems of A. E. Housman (Oxford English Texts) 9 copies
Unkind to Unicorns 9 copies
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman. Volume 3, 1915-1936 8 copies

The manuscript poems of A. E. Housman 6 copies

The classical papers of A. E. Housman 6 copies

Poetry and Prose 6 copies

The letters of A. E. Housman [ed. Burnett] 6 copies

Thirty Housman letters to Witter Bynner 5 copies

The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman: Volume 2, 1897-1914 5 copies

The Making of A Shropshire lad : A Manuscript Variorum 5 copies

To an Athlete Dying Young [poem] 5 copies, 1 review

Complete Poetical Works of A. E. Housman (Delphi Classics) (Delphi Poets… 4 copies

The confines of criticism: the Cambridge Inaugural, 1911 3 copies

Treelines: A collection of poems 2 copies

A Concordance to the Poems of A. E. Housman (Contributor) 2 copies

A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses 2 copies

A.E.H. A.W.P. : A Classical Friendship - A. E. Housman and A. W. Pollard 2 copies

Housman on Plautus: manuscript notes in the Rudens of Friedrich Marx… 2 copies

When I Was One-and-Twenty (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 2 copies, 1 review

A morning with the royal family 2 copies

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The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (Contributor) 736 copies, 2 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Contributor) 349 copies, 2 reviews
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Contributor) 326 copies, 5 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (Contributor) 206 copies
De Bello Civili (Editor, some editions) 205 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (Contributor) 192 copies, 2 reviews
Manilius: Astronomica (Loeb Classical Library No. 469) (English and Latin… (Editor, some editions) 106 copies, 1 review
Warrior (Contributor) 96 copies
The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 96 copies, 1 review
Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (Contributor) 61 copies
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England 50 copies, 2 reviews
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Contributor) 45 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent… (Contributor) 25 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World… (Contributor) 21 copies

My brother, A.E. Housman : personal recollections together with thirty… (Contributor) 17 copies

Trees: A Celebration (Contributor) 8 copies

Juvenalis cum tribus commentariis videlicet Ant. Mancinelli, Domitii… (Editor, some editions) 5 copies

For Lucasta, with Rue (Contributor) 2 copies

Ode to Boy: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from… (Contributor) 1 copy

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Housman, Alfred Edward

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Burial location

St Laurence's Church, Ludlow, Shropshire, England, UK (just outside the grounds)

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Birthplace

Fockbury, Worcestershire, England, UK

Place of death

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Places of residence

Bromsgrove, Hereford and Worcester, England, UK (vicinity)

Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

London, England, UK

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Education

Oxford University (St John's College)

Bromsgrove School

Occupations

patent office clerk

professor (Latin)

Relationships

Housman, Clemence (sister)

Housman, Laurence (brother)

Organizations

University College London

Cambridge University

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Short biography

English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

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The Housman Society

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