A Shropshire Lad (Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Housman, A. E.; D. J. Butterfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907360557 ISBN 13: 9781907360558

Publisher: Collector's Library, 2012

Synopsis

Shropshire Lad

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About the Author:

Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was born and brought up in the Bromsgrove region of Worcestershire, adjacent to Shropshire, and was educated locally and at St John's College, Oxford. Though he was a fine scholar, he failed to gin an Honours degree, and spent some years in the Patent Office in London. A series of brilliant academic articles secured him the Professorship of Latin at London University and he went on the become Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. Most famous for A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems was published in 1922, More Poems appeared posthumously and Collected Poems in 1939.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1907360557
• ISBN 13: 9781907360558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128