A.E. Housman : hero of the hidden life
Vincent, Edgar2018
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A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a celebrated poet and the foremost classicist of his day. His poetry was set to music by numerous composers including Arthur Somervell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, and Samuel Barber. Housman's painstaking vocation, to restore classical manuscripts by correcting textual errors, took up virtually the whole of his working life. A seemingly inaccessible, aloof man, he never set out to be a professional poet, yet poetry poured out of him and became his monument. His renowned 'A Shropshire Lad' and 'Last Poems' were born of an inner crisis, sparked by a profound but unreciprocated attachment for a fellow undergraduate. This biography reveals by contrast a man of many facets.
Main title:
A.E. Housman : hero of the hidden life / Edgar Vincent.
Author:
Vincent, Edgar, author
Imprint:
Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2018.
Collation:
xxii, 499 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781783272419 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1918982
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