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Alfred Edward Housman

Male : Poet, Author and classical scholar. Brother of Laurence Housman.
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Fockbury, Worcestershire

Date of Birth : 1859 Date of Death : 1936 Age : 77

Other Work : Professor of Latin at London University 1892 & Cambridge 1911-36

Education : Bromsgrove School & St John's College, Oxford (Classics, but failed his finals)
1892-1935
Introductory Lecture Delivered in University College, London 1892
(1892 CUP)
(Ed) M. Manilii Astronomicon (1903)
(Ed) D. Junii Juvenalis Saturae (1905)
Last Poems
(1922 Grant Richards)
Fragment of a Greek Tragedy
(1925)
(Ed) A. Mannaei Lucani Belli Civilis (1926)
A Fragment
(1930 PP) - 37 copies
The Name and Nature of Poetry
(1933 CUP)
Jubilee Address to King George V
(1935 CUP) - 26 copies
Three Poems : The Parallelogram, The Amphisbaena, The Crocodile
(1935 Dept of English, Univ College London)

1936-1960
(For My Funeral) Trinity College, Alfred Housman, Fellow (1936 CUP) - 300 copies
More Poems
(1936 Cape) (1936 Cape de luxe edition - 379)
The Collected Poems
(1939 Cape)
Stars
(1939 Venice) - 10 copies. Signed by F Prokosch
Letters to E H Blakeney
(1941 Mr Blakeney's Private Press, Winchester) - 18 copies
A Morning with the Royal Family
(1941)
A E H W W
(1944 PP) - 12 copies
The Manuscript Poems of A E Housman
(1955 University of Minnesota Press)
- edited by Tom Burns Haber
Thirty Letters to Witter Bynner
(1957 Knopf) - 700 copies. Edited by T B Haber
To Joseph Ishill : Five Unpublished Letters
(1959 Oriole Press, US)
The Collected Poems
(1959 Cape)

After 1961
Selected Prose
(1961 CUP)
The Making of a Shropshire Lad : A MS Variorum
(1966 Univ of Washington Press)
- edited by Tom Burns Haber
The Confines of Criticism
(1969 CUP)
Letters
(1971 Hart-Davis) - edited by Henry Maas
Poetry and Prose : A Selection
(1971 Hutchinson)
The Classical Papers
(1972 CUP) - 3 vols. Edited by J Diggle & F R D Goodyear
Fifteen Letters to Walter Ashburner
(1976 Tragara Press) - 125 copies
Collected Poems and Selected Prose
(1988 Allen Lane)
Unkind to Unicorns : The Comic Verse of A E Housman
(1995 Secret Books / Housman Society £6.99)

A Shropshire Lad
[Set in the Shropshire town of Clun]
(1896 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner) (1897 John Lane, Bodley Head NY)
(1898 Grant Richards. 2nd Ed)
(1908 Grant Richards) - William Hyde
(1913 Mosher, Portland)
(1914 Riccardi Press for Medici Society) - 1000
+ Last Poems
(1929 Alcuin Press, Chipping Campden) - 325. Frederick Maur Griggs
Offered for £350 in 1998
Six Poems from "A Shropshire Lad" & "Last Poems"
(1937 Birmingham Sch of Printing)
- wood engravings Sidaway, Hedingham, & Philips
(1940 Harrap) - Agnes Miller Parker
(1986 Folio Society) - Patrick Procktor
(1995 Hayloft Press £30) - 450 numbered copies. Claud Lovat Fraser

READING
Alfred Edward Housman : Recollections by Various People
(1936 Bromsgrove School) - 500
A S F Gow : A E Housman - A Sketch
(1936 CUP)
Laurence Housman : A E H - Some Poems, Some Letters and a Personal Memoir
(1937 Cape)
Percy Withers : A Buried Life
(1940)
Grant Richards : A E Housman 1897-1936
(1941 OUP)
John Carter & John Sparrow : A E Housman - A Bibliography
(1952 Hart Davis) (1982 St Paul's 2nd Ed)
Ian Scott-Kilvert : A E Housman
(1955)
George L Watson : A E Housman - A Divided Life
(1957 Hart-Davis 25/-)
NORMAN MARLOW : HOUSMAN - SCHOLAR AND POET
(1958)
Otto Skutsch Housman : Alfred Edward Housman 1859-1936
(1960 Athlone)
B J Leggett : The Poetic Art of Housman - Theory and Practice
(1978)
Richard Perceval Graves : A E Housman - The Scholar Poet
(1979 Routledge £12.95)
Norman Page : A E Housman - A Critical Biography
(1983 Macmillan)
Robin Shaw : Housman's Places
(1995 Housman Society pb £7.99)

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