A. E. Housman

The Scholar-Poet

Richard Perceval Graves

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571309474
• Year: 2014

A. E. Housman, romantic poet and classical scholar, is best-known as the author of A Shropshire Lad and the meticulous editor of Manilius, the Latin poet of astronomy.

In this first full biography, Richard Perceval Graves convincingly reconciles the two apparently conflicting sides of Housman's personality, and reassesses the reputation of a man who was something of a mystery even to his closest friends.

'This is bound to become the standard life.' John Carey, Sunday Times

'Dispassionate and well-researched.' Philip Larkin, Guardian

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraphs
• Contents
• List Of Plates
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Background and Early Years
• Chapter 2: Schooldays
• Chapter 3: A Scholar at Oxford
• Chapter 4: The Years of Poverty, 1881–92
• Chapter 5: An Academic Life, 1892–1911
• Chapter 6: A Literary Life (1)
• Chapter 7: Mainly Family, 1892–1929
• Chapter 8: Travelling Abroad, 1897–1929
• Chapter 9: Trinity College, Cambridge, 1911–29
• Chapter 10: A Classical Scholar
• Chapter 11: A Literary Life (2)
• Chapter 12: Last Years
• Appendix: Housman letters at Bromsgrove
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index
• Plates
• Copyright