A E (Alfred Edward) Housman The collected poems of 
About the Book:  A good copy from one of classic and well-loved poets and scholars. Notes from flyleaf “This is both the first and the definitive edition of A.E. Housman’s collected poetry. It contains the whole of A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems. More Poems and the verses which were printed in A.E.H. Mr Laurence Housman’s memoir of his brother. There are also a number of poems which have not previously appeared in volume form, and the collection is rounded off with three chorus translations from the Greek, which originally appeared in Odes from the Greek Dramatists, edited by A. W. Pollard. 
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Genre:  Poetry, Lifestyle 
Edition: First published 1939 - 10th Impression 1949
Published:  Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London 
ISBN: Pre ISBN numbering.
Size: 19.5x 13.5cm
Pages:256 pages
 
Contents
1 A Shropshire Lad
2 Last Poems
3 More Poems
4 Additional Poems 
5 Translations
6 Notes on the Text by John Carter
7 Index to First Lines
8 Index to Titled Poems 
Note: The Poems contained in the parts of this book entitled A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems are included by arrangement with The Richards Press Ltd. 
 
CONDITION:
Dust Jacket: Overall good condition some scuffing and tearing to the edges, the spine is good no sun fade. Hand written biographical notes. on rear fly leaf and bottom inner edge clipped. Front Cover Illustration by Joan Hassall
Covers: Green cloth covers are marked and faded in places to front and back and some scuffing and wear to all the outer edges.  
Binding: Tight 
Spine: Good slight lean. The title on spine shows some wear, marks and scuffing. 
Pages.  All pages complete. Overall in good condition bright and clean.  Name inscribed on front free end paper. 
 
Back Story and Biography.
A.E. HOUSMAN was born near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire in 1859. The eldest of seven children, he entered Bromsgrove School as a “foundation scholar” at the age of eleven. He was inquisitive, quiet and studious – with a passion for learning Greek and Latin. He also wrote poetry, for which he won several school prizes. His aptitude and industry, as well as regular tutorials in classics from a demanding but supportive headmaster, won him a scholarship to St John’s College, Oxford… He arrived there in 1877, to read classics in the prestigious Honour School of Mods and Greats where he gained First Class Honours in the Classical Moderations examination... In 1882 his first academic paper was published, on the Roman writer Horace. After an intense bout of writing poetry in the spring of 1895, his first book of poems was published in the following year. It was titled A Shropshire Lad and has never been out of print. The 63 poems convey his feelings on the beauty of nature, the brevity of life, the fragility of love, the certainty of death. Many of the poems are set in a half-imaginary Shropshire, what he called ‘the land of lost content’ including a Shropshire Lad. In 1911 Housman secured the coveted post of Professor of Latin at Cambridge University and was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College. This is where he lived and worked for the next twenty-five years. In 1922 a long-awaited second volume of verse, titled Last Poems, was published to much acclaim. Housman died in Cambridge on April 30th 1936, leaving notebooks that contained many unpublished poems. In the next eighteen months his brother and literary executor, Laurence Housman, published many of these as More Poems and then, as part of his memoir, Additional Poems. Housman’s ashes were buried against the north wall of St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow. In 1985 a statue of him was erected in Bromsgrove’s pedestrianised High Street. Courtesy of Alfred Edward Housman | The Housman Societyt. Courtesy of Alfred Edward Housman | The Housman Society 
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