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A.e. Housman : A Man of Lost Content, Hardcover by Waine, Peter, Like New Use...
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781913606107
- Book Title
- A. E. Housman : Finding a Path to Flourish
- Publisher
- Eyewear Publishing
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 20.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 378 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Eyewear Publishing
ISBN-10
1913606104
ISBN-13
9781913606107
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12050083220
Product Key Features
Book Title
A. E. Housman : Finding a Path to Flourish
Number of Pages
378 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
General
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
821.912
Synopsis
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. A.E. HOUSMAN: A MAN OF LOST CONTENT will look at this enigmatic person, our greatest classicist who penned some of the loveliest poetry ever written. Despite the relative paucity of his poetic output--his collection, A Shropshire Lad, has never been out of print. He was offered the Poet Laureatship and the Order of Merit, but declined both. Housman could be kind and unkind, friendly and rude, gregarious and painfully silent, a recluse and a bon-viveur. He believed that life was dreadful and death welcome, but also that death ended one's enjoyment of cherry trees and of the English countryside; a gourmet who lived frugally, a traditionalist who loved to fly to France in the dangerous days of pioneering aviation. He lost his religious faith at 13 but he still acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Bible which he used extensively in his poems. He never wished to be regarded as a war poet, but his verse lent solace to the bereaved in two world wars. Many of the most eminent contemporary composers attempted to put his poems to music and most failed. He was homosexual but almost certainly a repressed one. His emotional life was over by the time he was 30 and the subject of his affection was neither a homosexual nor even aware of the effect he had had on Housman. He failed his Finals but still became Professor of Latin at both University College, London and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge. Despite being regarded as our greatest classicist he devoted 27 years to translating a Latin poet of the third rank whom Housman himself summed up as "facile and frivolous." Regarded as an intellectual machine and with the tools afforded him by his mastery of great prose, Housman took up the challenge of textual criticism, rectifying in his mind the hitherto poor classical scholarship of his contemporaries and of those who preceded him. The author advocates a reason for these strange paradoxes, a theory not propounded before..., This is a new study and interpretation of the much loved poet, A. E. Housman, best known for his poem A Shropshire Lad. But there was so much more to this enigmatic person, our greatest classicist who penned some of the loveliest poetry ever written. In this book, Waine investigates Housman's enigmatic and brilliant mind, and shows, with empathy and wit, how he located a complicated path on which to walk and flourish, despite the many brambles that lay on all sides of his lonely journey. W.H. Auden famously described A.E. Housman as keeping 'tears like dirty postcards in a drawer'. An element of mystery has always surrounded the life of this intensely private man. In his quirky but compelling account of Housman's development into both a renowned classical scholar (even after failing his undergraduate degree in Classics!) and the best selling author of A Shropshire Lad, Peter Waine casts fresh light on the oddities and obsessions that resulted in the rebarbative Housman 'persona', as well as in some of the most beautiful and moving lyrics in the English language. Richly detailed and elegantly written, this is a fascinating guide to the work of a poet whose admirers ranged from Oscar Wilde to Randall Jarrell. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
PR4809.H15
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