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 Drawing on a wide range of sources, including much unpublished material, Norman Page provides us with a fascinating insight into Housman the poet, the scholar and the man.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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Book Title: A. E. Housman
Book Subtitle: A Critical Biography
Authors: Norman Page
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24584-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-65601-3Published: 31 March 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24584-0Published: 15 April 1996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 236
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature

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