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A. E. Housman

A Critical Biography

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  • © 1996

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  1. Norman Page
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: ‘All that need be known’

    • Norman Page
    Pages 1-15

  3. A Worcestershire Lad

    • Norman Page
    Pages 16-28

  4. Oxford

    • Norman Page
    Pages 29-46

  5. The Years of Penance

    • Norman Page
    Pages 47-63

  6. ‘Picked out of the gutter’

    • Norman Page
    Pages 64-95

  7. Cambridge I

    • Norman Page
    Pages 96-127

  8. Cambridge II

    • Norman Page
    Pages 128-161

  9. The Scholar

    • Norman Page
    Pages 162-178

  10. The Poet

    • Norman Page
    Pages 179-206

  11. Epilogue

    • Norman Page
    Pages 207-208

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-236
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A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the enormous success of A Shropshire Lad, one of the greatest and best-known poems in the English language, he became a legend in his own lifetime. Reissued to mark the centenary of the publication of A Shropshire Lad, Norman Page's highly-acclaimed biography is regarded as the most complete account of Housman's life and career available. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including much unpublished material, Norman Page provides us with a fascinating insight into Housman the poet, the scholar and the man. `By far the best biography of Housman we have ...' - Andrew Motion, Times Literary Supplement

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