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A Short Biography of Alfred Edward Housman

Author Name:

Alfred Edward Housman

Born As:

Alfred Edward Housman

Other Names:

Born:

26 Mar 1859

Died:

30 Apr 1936




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Poet and Scholar                          
Selected Works:

Poetry:

A Shropshire Lad - 1896
Last Poems - 1922
More Poems - 1936

Collected Poems - 1939; the poems included in this volume but not the three above are known as Additional Poems. The Penguin Edition of 1956 includes an Introduction by John Sparrow.

Manuscript Poems: Eight Hundred Lines of Hitherto Un-collected Verse from the Author's Notebooks, editor Tom Burns Haber - 1955

Unkind to Unicorns: Selected Comic Verse, editor J. Roy Birch - 1995; 2nd editor 1999

The Poems of A. E. Housman, editor Archie Burnett - 1997

Classical scholarship:

M. Manilii Astronomica - 1903-1930; 2nd edition 1937; 5 vols.
D. Iunii Iuuenalis Saturae: editorum in usum edidit - 1905; 2nd edition 1931
M. Annaei Lucani, Belli Ciuilis, Libri Decem: editorum in usum edidit - 1926; 2nd edition 1927

The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman, editor J. Diggle and F. R. D. Goodyear - 1972; 3 vols.

William White, "Housman's Latin Inscriptions", CJ - 1955 159 - 166, reports also a Latin elegiac poem, dedicating Manilius to M. J. Jackson, a Latin address to the University of Sydney signed by "The President of University College, London", and "Hendecasyllables", a translation of John Dryden's "King Arthur", printed in the Bromsgrovian - 1882 over the signature "A. E. H." White's article includes the text of eight Latin inscriptions written by Housman for various memorial brasses.

Published lectures:

These lectures are listed by date of delivery, with date of first publication given separately if different.

Introductory Lecture - 1892
Swinburne"- 1910; published 1969
Cambridge Inaugural Lecture - 1911; published 1969 as "The Confines of Criticism"
The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism - 1921; published 1922
The Name and Nature of Poetry - 1933

Letters:

The Letters of A.E. Housman, editor Henry Maas - 1971
The Letters of A.E. Housman, editor Archie Burnett - 2007.