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About the Author

A. E. Housman was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England on March 26, 1859. In 1877, he attended St. John's College, Oxford and received first class honours in classical moderations. He worked as clerk in the Patent Office in London for ten years. During this time he studied Greek and Roman show more classics intensively, and in 1892 was appointed professor of Latin at University College, London. In 1911 he became professor of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge, a post he held until his death. He only published two volumes of poetry during his lifetime: A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. He died on April 30, 1936. A third volume, More Poems, was released posthumously in 1936 by his brother as was an edition of Housman's Complete Poems in 1939. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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

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The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman

Works by A. E. Housman

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A Shropshire Lad (1896) 1,478 copies

The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman (1940) 904 copies

More Poems (1936) 154 copies

Last Poems (1922) 114 copies

Collected Poems and Selected Prose (1988) 55 copies

The Name and Nature of Poetry and Other Selected Prose (1961) 49 copies

The name and nature of poetry (1933) 43 copies

A. E. Housman (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) (2001) 26 copies

The letters of A. E. Housman [ed. Maas] (1971) 17 copies

Introductory lecture: 1892 (1937) 14 copies

Unkind to Unicorns (1995) 11 copies

The Poems of A. E. Housman (Oxford English Texts) (1997) 10 copies

Poetry and Prose (1971) 10 copies

The classical papers of A. E. Housman (1972) 9 copies

The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman: Volume 1, 1882-1897 (1972) 8 copies

The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman. Volume 3, 1915-1936 (2004) 7 copies

Thirty Housman letters to Witter Bynner 7 copies

For the Love of Moses: A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems (2008) 6 copies

The letters of A. E. Housman [ed. Burnett] (2007) 6 copies

The manuscript poems of A. E. Housman (1955) 6 copies

The Making of A Shropshire lad : A Manuscript Variorum (1966) 5 copies

The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman: Volume 2, 1897-1914 (1972) 5 copies

To an Athlete Dying Young [poem] (1995) 5 copies

The confines of criticism: the Cambridge Inaugural, 1911 (1969) 4 copies

Housman on Plautus: manuscript notes in the Rudens of Friedrich Marx (1928) 2 copies

L'applicazione del pensiero alla critica del testo. Con estratti inediti dal Notebook X e uno scritto di Gian Biagio… (2022) 2 copies

A Shropshire Lad: Complete in Verse and Song (2001) 2 copies

A Concordance to the Poems of A. E. Housman (1940) — Contributor — 2 copies

Loveliest of Trees 2 copies

Alfred Edward Housman 2 copies

A morning with the royal family 2 copies

50 Poemas. Traduccion De Juan Bonilla (2006) 2 copies

The selected poems of A.E. Housman (Armed Services edition) 2 copies

When I Was One-and-Twenty 2 copies

Housman and Heine: A Neglected Relationship (2011) 2 copies

Un ragazzo dello Shropshire e altre poesie. Testo inglese a fronte (2005) 1 copy

Fifteen letters to Walter Ashburner (1976) 1 copy

M. Manilii Astronomicon, Liber I, Editio Altera 1 copy

A Shropshire lad and other poetry 1 copy

Digte 1 copy

Loveliest of Trees 1 copy

A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems - The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman 1 copy

A Shropshire Lad by Hyperion (UK) 1 copy

Bredon Hill {poem} 1 copy

Fragment of a Greek tragedy 1 copy

Selected Poems A. E. Housman 1 copy

R. L. S.: An Uncollected Poem. 1 copy

Tales of the Gold Rush 1 copy

Shropshire lad [with] English countryside 1 copy

A centennial memento; with excerpts from A. Shropshire lad, and Fragment of a Greek tragedy 1 copy

Six poems from A Shropshire lad and Last poems 1 copy

Soldier, I wish you well : the military poems of A.E. Housman and the letters from Burma of G.H. Housman (2001) 1 copy

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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,261 copies

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The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contributor, some editions — 624 copies

The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature, Volumes 1-2 (1955) — Contributor — 459 copies

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 447 copies

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributor, some editions — 443 copies

World War One British Poets (1997) — Contributor — 400 copies

Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (1940) — Contributor — 384 copies

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributor — 250 copies

The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contributor — 236 copies

De Bello Civili (1887) — Editor, some editions — 228 copies

The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contributor — 158 copies

Manilius: Astronomica (Loeb Classical Library No. 469) (English and Latin Edition) (1977) — Editor, some editions — 137 copies

Poetry of the First World War: an anthology (2013) — Contributor — 126 copies

Warrior (1986) — Contributor — 112 copies

The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Contributor — 110 copies

The Norton Book of Friendship (1991) — Contributor — 96 copies

Storytelling and Other Poems (1949) — Contributor — 90 copies

Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016) — Contributor — 85 copies

Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (1998) — Contributor — 84 copies

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contributor — 72 copies

The Name of Love: Classic Gay Love Poems (1995) — Contributor — 50 copies

A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contributor — 39 copies

The Easter Book of Legends and Stories (1947) — Contributor — 34 copies

Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Contributor — 33 copies

The Satires (Classical) (Latin Edition) (1979) — Editor, some editions — 31 copies

Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Contributor — 29 copies

Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Contributor — 26 copies

Loss: An Anthology (1997) — Contributor — 18 copies

My brother, A.E. Housman : personal recollections together with thirty hitherto unpublished poems (1937) — Contributor — 17 copies

Fairy Poems (2023) — Contributor — 15 copies

Trees: A Celebration (1989) — Contributor — 13 copies

Spring World, Awake: Stories, Poems, and Essays (1970) — Contributor — 9 copies

Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contributor — 8 copies

An Adult's Garden of Bloomers (1966) — Contributor — 7 copies

The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contributor — 5 copies

For Lucasta, with Rue (1999) — Contributor — 2 copies

Treelines: A collection of poems (2018) 2 copies

Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Contributor — 2 copies

Reviews

A Shropshire Lad (Dover Thrift Editions) by A. E. Housman

A very thought-provoking little book, Housman's A SHROPSHIRE LAD, first published in 1896, was a bestseller in England during the Great War, and no wonder, with it overarching theme of the shortness and fragility of life, coupled with pieces that point directly at war and answering the call to arms ("The Recruit"), and the gruesome result ("The Day of Battle"). Although Housman was writing of the Boer Wars, the sentiment was the same.

I've been reading a lot lately about the First World War, so was moved to glance through Housman's minor masterpiece once again. My version is this flimsy International Pocket Library edition, bought new for only fifty cents more than fifty years ago. It's well-traveled, and looks it. Probably its most famous poem is "To an Athlete Dying Young."

Barely fifty pages, but there's much food for thought here. Very highly recommended.

- Tim Bazzet, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (more)

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TimBazzett | 15 other reviews | Nov 9, 2022 |

A Shropshire Lad by A E Housman

At school many years ago we compared Herrick’s “Fair Daffodils” and Housman’s “Loveliest of Trees”. I don’t think it’s possible to say which is “best”: they are both perfect. I remember my mother quoting or reading “On Wenlock Edge” when I was only about 7 or 8, and young enough to be a bit frightened at the Roman who was ashes under Uricon, even though I had no real idea of death. The ruins at Viroconium or Wroxeter are surprisingly big, pillars standing in a field as I recall once seeing. Housman gave us the phrases “the coloured counties”, “blue remembered hills” and "the land of lost content". Favourites: “Loveliest of Trees” and “On Wenlock Edge”. My copy is a tiny hardback still in its yellow and black dustjacket.… (more)

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PollyMoore3 | 15 other reviews | May 14, 2020 |

A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected… by A. E. Housman

This was a fairly decent assembly of collected poems by the renowned poet A.E Housman. The rhyme schemes were simple and the themes not overtly complex. It was good reading, and a fast one too, but I felt there was a detachment between when it was written and now. Overall, worth reading- but briskly.

3 stars.

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DanielSTJ | 7 other reviews | Feb 17, 2020 |