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A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography

By Norman Page (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1996
ISBN
978-0-333-65601-3, 978-1-349-24584-0
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-24584-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30290561 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XV, 236\259
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Poetry and Poetics; Nineteenth-Century Literature;

Description

A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime. Reissued to mark the centenary of the publication of A Shropshire Lad, Norman Page's highly-acclaimed biography is regarded as the most complete account of Housman's life and career available. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including much unpublished material, Norman Page provides us with a fascinating insight into Housman the poet, the scholar and the man. `By far the best biography of Housman we have ... ' - Andrew Motion, Times Literary Supplement

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