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Alfred Edward Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (pronEng|ˈhaʊsmən; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was a classical scholar and English
Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and ranks as one of the greatest scholars of all time. ['a man who turned out to be not only the great English classical scholar of his time but also one of the few real and great scholars anywhere at any time'. Charles Oscar Brink, "English Classical Scholarship: Historical reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman," James Clarke & Co, Oxford, Oxford University Press, New York, 1986 p.149] He established his reputation publishing as a
Life
Housman was born in Fockbury, a
Housman was educated first at
After Oxford, Jackson got a job as a clerk in the
Although Housman's sphere of responsibilities as professor included both Housman found his true vocation in classical studies and treated poetry as a secondary activity. He never spoke about his poetry in public until 1933 when he gave a lecture, 'The Name and Nature of Poetry', in which he argued that poetry should appeal to emotions rather than to the intellect. He died three years later in Cambridge. His ashes are buried near St Laurence's Church, Poetry "A Shropshire Lad" During his years in London, A E Housman completed his cycle of 63 poems, "A Shropshire Lad." After several publishers had turned it down, he published it at his own expense in 1896. The volume surprised both his colleagues and students. At first selling slowly, it rapidly became a lasting success, and its appeal to English musicians (see below) had helped to make it widely known before The poems are pervaded by deep pessimism and preoccupation with death, without religious consolation. Housman wrote most of them before ever visiting that part of Shropshire (about thirty miles from his home), which he presented in an idealised pastoral light, as his 'land of lost content'. [A.E.HOusman, "A Shropshire Lad", XL] Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of Later collections In the early 1920s, when Moses Jackson was dying in After his death Housman's brother, Laurence, published further poems which appeared in "More Poems" (1936) and "Collected Poems" (1939). Housman also wrote a parodic "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy", in English, and humorous poems published posthumously under the title "Unkind to Unicorns". John Sparrow ["Collected Poems" (Penguin, Harmondsworth 1956), preface by John Sparrow.] found statements in a letter written late in Housman's life which describe how his poems came into existence: "De Amicitia" (about friendship) In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled "A. E. Housman's 'De Amicitia'" in the :::"To put the world between us"::::"We parted, stiff and dry;":::"Goodbye, said you, forget me."::::"I will, no fear, said I" :::"If here, where clover whitens"::::"The dead man's knoll, you pass",:::"And no tall flower to meet you"::::"Starts in the trefoiled grass", :::"Halt by the headstone naming"::::"The heart no longer stirred,":::"And say the lad that loved you"::::"Was one that kept his word." [A.E.Housman, "More Poems," Jonathan Cape, London 1936 p.48] His poem, 'Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?', written after the trial of Housman in other art forms Music and art song Housman's poetry, especially "A Shropshire Lad", provided texts for a significant number of British - and in particular English - composers in the first half of the 20th century. The national, pastoral and traditional elements of his style resonated with [http://www.musicalresources.co.uk/WhatisEnglishPastoralMusic.php similar trends in English music] . The first was probably the cycle "A Shropshire Lad" set by Butterworth's death on Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland (song cycle, "Land of Lost Content"), The impact in music of Housman's poetry has not been limited in time, place or style. The contemporary Literature References to and quotations from Housman are frequent in English language literature. *Housman is the main character in the 1998 Visual art A wall hanging of " Film A line from Housman's poem XVI "How Clear, How Lovely Bright", was used for the title of the last episode of the television movie series " " A fragment of his poem is quoted in " In Episode 193, Season 9 of The 2002 sci fi film "Firestarter 2: Rekindled" (based on a Steven King novel, the villain Rainbird recites the second and third stanzas of "Others, I'm not the first" as the protagonist, Charlie, destroys a town with her pyrokinetic abilities. The lines "Ice and Fire, fear contended with desire" are used by Rainbird to describe the relationship between him and Charlie. Works Poetry *" Classical scholarship *"M. Manilii Astronomica" (1903-1930; 2nd ed. 1937; 5 vols.) Published lectures These lectures are listed by date of delivery, with date of first publication given separately if different. Letters *"The Letters of A.E. Housman", ed. Henry Maas (1971) Footnotes References *Critchley, Julian, 'Homage to a lonely lad', "Weekend Telegraph" (UK), 23 April 1988. Further reading *Holden, A. W. and J. R. Birch, "A. E Housman - A Reassessment" (Palgrave Macmillan, London 1999) External links On Housman in general and his life * [http://www.housman-society.co.uk The Housman Society] Topics * [http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/10/sept91/housman.htm Leithauser] "A footnote for Housman" by Brad Leithauser in " Texts online * "A Shropshire Lad" *" [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/HouShro.html A Shropshire Lad] " Источник: Alfred Edward HousmanPoetry was for him ...'a morbid secretion', as the pearl is for the oyster. The desire, or the need, did not come upon him often, and it came usually when he was feeling ill or depressed; then whole lines and stanzas would present themselves to him without any effort, or any consciousness of composition on his part. Sometimes they wanted a little alteration, sometimes none; sometimes the lines needed in order to make a complete poem would come later, spontaneously or with 'a little coaxing'; sometimes he had to sit down and finish the poem with his head. That .... was a long and laborious process ...
Sparrow himself adds, "How difficult it is to achieve a satisfactory analysis may be judged by considering the last poem in "A Shropshire Lad". Of its four stanzas, Housman tells us that two were 'given' him ready made; one was coaxed forth from his subconsciousness an hour or two later; the remaining one took months of conscious composition. No one can tell for certain which was which.""Others, I am not the first":::"have willed more mischief than they durst"
as the voice speaks of how "Fear contended with desire". In "More Poems", he buries his love for Moses Jackson in the very act of commemorating it, as his feelings of love break his friendship, and must be carried silently to the grave. [Summers ed. 1995,372.] :-:::"Because I liked you better"::::"Than suits a man to say":::"It irked you, and I promised"::::"To throw the thought away."
*"A Shropshire Lad" is mentioned in
*There is a reference to Housman in
*Housman's poetry ("There's this to say for life and breath, it gives a man a taste for death") supplies the title and is quoted in
*The same phrase is used by
*The last words of the poem "On Wenlock Edge" is used by Audrey R. Langer for the title of the 1989 "Ashes Under Uricon".
*The
*Housman's poem "From far, from eve and morning" (Shropshire Lad XXXII) is included and heavily referenced in
*Housman is mentioned and quoted several times by
*In "
*In "Drover's Road" by New Zealand writer
*In
*In
*
*On the first chapter of
*There are several references to Housman in
*Denise McCluggage, a noted automotive journalist and pioneer sports car racer in the 1950s and 1960s, used a line from A Shropshire Lad ("With Rue My Heart Is Laden . . .") as the title for a collection of her columns ("By Brooks Too Broad for Leaping")
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*"More Poems" (1936)
*"Collected Poems" (1939); the poems included in this volume but not the three above are known as "Additional Poems". The Penguin Edition of 1956 includes an Introduction by
*"Manuscript Poems: Eight Hundred Lines of Hitherto Un-collected Verse from the Author's Notebooks", ed. Tom Burns Haber (1955)
*"Unkind to Unicorns: Selected Comic Verse", ed. J. Roy Birch (1995; 2nd ed. 1999)
*"The Poems of A. E. Housman", ed. Archie Burnett (1997)
*"D. Iunii Iuuenalis Saturae: editorum in usum edidit" (1905; 2nd ed. 1931)
*"M. Annaei Lucani, Belli Ciuilis, Libri Decem: editorum in usum edidit" (1926; 2nd ed. 1927)
*"The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman", ed. J. Diggle and F. R. D. Goodyear (1972; 3 vols.)
*"William White, "Housman's Latin Inscriptions", CJ (1955) 159 - 166, reports also a Latin elegiac poem, dedicating Manilius to M. J. Jackson, a Latin address to the University of Sydney signed by "The President of University College, London", and "Hendecasyllables", a translation of John Dryden's "King Arthur", printed in the Bromsgrovian (1882) over the signature "A. E. H." White's article includes the text of eight Latin inscriptions written by Housman for various memorial brasses.
*Introductory Lecture (1892)
*"Swinburne" (1910; published 1969)
*Cambridge Inaugural Lecture (1911; published 1969 as "The Confines of Criticism")
*"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism" (1921; published 1922)
*"The Name and Nature of Poetry" (1933)
*"The Letters of A.E. Housman", ed. Archie Burnett (2007)
*Cunningham, Valentine ed., "The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics" (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)
*Graves, Richard Perceval, "A. E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 155
*Housman, Laurence, "A.E.H.: Some Poems, Some Letters and a Personal Memoir by his Brother" (London: Jonathan Cape, 1937)
*Page, Norman, ‘Housman, Alfred Edward (1859–1936)’, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
*Palmer, Christopher and Stephen Banfield, 'A. E. Housman', "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" (London: Macmillan, 2001)
*Summers, Claude J. ed., "The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage" (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995)
*Shaw, Robin, "Housman's Places" (The Housman Society, 1995)
* [http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/housman.htm Housman's Grave]
* [http://www.tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25336-2646321,00.html Star man] : An article in the [http://www.the-tls.co.uk TLS] by Robert Douglas Fairhurst, 20 June 2007
* [http://www.glbtq.com/literature/housman_ae.html glbtq.com] An informative page by Joseph Cady of the University of Rochester. Cady wrote the entry in Summers ed. (see References below).
* [http://www.musicalresources.co.uk/EnglishComposersandA.E.Hou.php Musical Resources: "English Composers and A.E. Housman" by Tim Foxon ] at www.musicalresources.co.uk English Composers and A.E. Housman]
* [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/complete_housman.html Complete serious poems]
* [http://www.bryantmcgill.com/World_Poetry/~A/A.E._Housman/ A.E. Housman Poetry and Translations] at the Open Translation Project sponsored by
* [http://www.gwywyr.com/essays/housman.html Swinburne] — Housman discusses Swinburne's poetic virtues and vices
* [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/housman.html Selected Housman Poems]
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* [http://www.johnwheater.net/Housman.php Account of the 1996 centenary reading of A Shropshire Lad complete, by The Housman Society, with one audio excerpt]
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