A. E. Housman

A Single Life

Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Martin Blocksidge ISBN: 9781782843313
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press Publication: May 12, 2016
Imprint: Sussex Academic Press Language: English
Author: Martin Blocksidge
ISBN: 9781782843313
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Publication: May 12, 2016
Imprint: Sussex Academic Press
Language: English

A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a professional poet, always making quite clear that his 'proper job' was as a Professor of Latin. Housman's fame as a poet has often obscured the fact that he was the leading British classical scholar of his generation, and a Cambridge Professor. It has also sometimes been suggested that Housman's two areas of activity are the sign of a flawed or 'divided' personality. A.E. Housman: A Single Life, argues that there is no fundamental tension between Housman the poet and Housman the scholar, and his career is presented very much as that of a working academic who also wrote poetry. The book gives a full account of what Housman described as 'the great and real troubles of my early manhood', and in particular his unrequited and life-long love for his undergraduate friend Moses Jackson. He also possessed a highly developed sense of the absurd and a ready and often disconcerting wit, features which characterized not only his letters and miscellaneous writings, but also, famously, much of his scholarly work.

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A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a professional poet, always making quite clear that his 'proper job' was as a Professor of Latin. Housman's fame as a poet has often obscured the fact that he was the leading British classical scholar of his generation, and a Cambridge Professor. It has also sometimes been suggested that Housman's two areas of activity are the sign of a flawed or 'divided' personality. A.E. Housman: A Single Life, argues that there is no fundamental tension between Housman the poet and Housman the scholar, and his career is presented very much as that of a working academic who also wrote poetry. The book gives a full account of what Housman described as 'the great and real troubles of my early manhood', and in particular his unrequited and life-long love for his undergraduate friend Moses Jackson. He also possessed a highly developed sense of the absurd and a ready and often disconcerting wit, features which characterized not only his letters and miscellaneous writings, but also, famously, much of his scholarly work.

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