Description: Alfred Edward Housman : Recollections By Katharine E. Symons, A. W. Pollard, Laurence Housman, R. W. Chambers, Alan KEr, A. S. F. Gow and John Sparrow Published at Bromsgrove School for the Housman Memorial Fund, 1936. Limited to 500 copies. Hardback, large 8vo, 60 pages, illustrated. CONDITION A good copy of this limited edition. The covers are good but with a few small redish marks (see images). Endpapers good. No writing or names to the book. Pages clean throughout. Overall very good. Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by first publishing as a private scholar. Later Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and then at the University of Cambridge. He is now acknowledged as one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest classical scholars of any time. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan are still considered authoritative. In 1896, he emerged as a poet with A Shropshire Lad, a cycle in which he poses as an unsophisticated and melancholy youth. After a slow start, this captured the imagination of young readers, its preoccupation with early death appealing to them especially during times of war. In 1922 his Last Poems added to his reputation, which was further enhanced by the large number of song settings drawn from these collections. Following his death, further poems from his notebooks were published by his brother, Laurence. It was then too, though Housman had made no admission himself, that his sexual orientation began to be questioned. (Loc : Desk, Top Shelf, Far Right)
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Binding: Hardcover
Non-Fiction Subject: Biographies & True Stories
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Fiction Subject: General & Literary Fiction
Author: Symons, Katharine E.
Publisher: Bromsgrove : Published at Bromsgrove School for the Housman Memo
Year Printed: 1936
