(Ebook) AE Housman Hero of the Hidden Life 1st Edition by Edgar Vincent ISBN 9781783272419 1783272414

(Ebook) AE Housman Hero of the Hidden Life 1st Edition by Edgar Vincent ISBN 9781783272419 1783272414

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ISBN 10: 1783272414
ISBN 13: 9781783272419
Author: Edgar Vincent

A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a celebrated poet and the foremost classicist of his day. His poetry was set to music by numerous composers including Arthur Somervell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland and Samuel Barber. Housman's painstaking vocation, to restore classical manuscripts by correcting textual errors, took up virtually the whole of his working life. A seemingly inaccessible, aloof man, he never set out tobe a professional poet, yet poetry poured out of him and became his monument.
His renowned A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems were born of an inner crisis, sparked by a profound but unreciprocated attachment fora fellow undergraduate. To be sexually different in the time of Oscar Wilde was to invite ostracism and disgust. This fact, allied with his secretiveness and penchant for irony, reinforced his reticence on personal matters. Untilnow, he has remained a hidden personality, held in the public mind as prim and grim.
This biography reveals by contrast a man of many facets, one companionable in small groups, generous to a fault, and always on the lookout for humour and fun; a master of English prose; a witty and compelling after-dinner speaker; an occasional writer of nonsense verse; a frequenter of the music hall; an intrepid early traveller by air; and a connoisseur of food and wine. Drawing on Housman's published letters and on 81 significant new finds, Edgar Vincent conjures up a new Housman, created out of his reactions to the events of his life as he experienced them. It weaves together his scholarly life and the biographical elements in his poetry to examine his emotional and sexual needs with dispassion and empathy and to uncover his hidden sensibilities and creative world.

EDGAR VINCENT read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Following Oxford he was commissioned in the Navy, spending most of his time with the Royal Marines. Subsequently he worked for Imperial Chemical Industries for thirty years. He then fulfilled a life-longambition to write his book Nelson: Love & Fame, published by Yale University Press in 2003. The book was shortlisted for the BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, was a New York Times Notable Book and was named one ofAtlantic Monthly's Books of the Year.

(Ebook) AE Housman Hero of the Hidden Life 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Childhood

Part II: Oxford

Part III: The Patent Office

Part IV: Re-entry to the academic life

Part V: Pastures new

Part VI: Who am I?

Part VII: Paradoxical Housman

Part VIII: Cambridge – The glittering prize

Part IX: The Great War 1914–1918

Part X: After the war

Part XI: Last Poems A Requiem for Moses Jackson

Part XII: Last Things

Part XIII: Paris 1932

Part XIV: Academic apotheosis and swansong

Part XV: Last flights to France

Posthumous publications published by Laurence Housman

Epilogue

References

Bibliography

Index

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