A E.Housman: Poems Selected by Alan Hollinghurst (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) - Softcover

Housman, A. E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571207057 ISBN 13: 9780571207053

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2001

Synopsis

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.

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Review:

"Housman's singular vision seized hold of the English imagination, inspiring not just a literary following but a generation of composers, like George Butterworth and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who sought to do musically what Housman had done with verse: to create a new and authentically English kind of song."
--New Yorker

About the Author:

A. E. Housman (1859-1936) was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. His first collection, A Shropshire Lad, was published in 1896.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571207057
• ISBN 13: 9780571207053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76
• Editor: Hollinghurst Alan