Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Housman’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* A SHROPSHIRE LAD is presented with line numbers – ideal for students
* Includes rare translations
* Features Housman’s comic verse – first time in digital print
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Housman’s rare essays – including seminal critical works and the controversial ‘DE AMICITIA’, published many years later by the poet’s brother, detailing Housman’s homosexual love for Jackson
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections
A SHROPSHIRE LAD
LAST POEMS
MORE POEMS
ADDITIONAL POEMS
NOTEBOOK FRAGMENTS
TRANSLATIONS
COMIC VERSE
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Essays
SWINBURNE
THE NAME AND NATURE OF POETRY
THE APPLICATION OF THOUGHT TO TEXTUAL CRITICISM
A. E. HOUSMAN’S ‘DE AMICITIA’ by Laurence Housman
