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Poetry book with beautiful wood engravings. ... Read more

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Partial Contents:EDITORIAL STAFF Future Contests, Poems Wanted COMMENTBreak That Block! (30 Good Ideas for a Poem)by Tom TilfordKEYNOTE POEMS FOR OCTOBERAnna-Margaret OSullivan, Esther Towns,Junette Fabian, Mary Lehtinen, Naomi Cherkofsky,Marian Ford Park, Jacie Ragan, Joan Baumel,Pat Anthony, Kimberly CourtrightHONORED POET FOR JULYGlen Sothman ANNUAL HONORED POET AWARD FOR 1992Jacie RaganBILLBOARD OF COMING POETS WELL-TRAVELED POETPatrick Flavin and Richard WakemanJim Young and Carolyn Gill-LoretzONCE OVER LIGHTLYDorothy Heller and Mariana WarnerGlen Sothman and Jamie BrownWORST RHYMED-POEM Contest AwardsFinalists 1stPearl Bloch Segall 2ndCorinne Newell3rdSusan Adams Moloney 4thLinda PinnellAWARD-WINNING POEMS TRIOLET CONTESTWinners and FinalistslstD. GerhardtHISTORY OF POETRY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Part XXA. E. HousmanCHILDRENS CORNERLeslie D. Perkins and Eleanor M. HusseyNEW POETS FOR OCTOBERTwelve New MPR PoetsA POETRY REVIEW A Gift of Great Poetry, A CollectionAUTUMN GOLD POETRY CONTEST Awards and Finalists, 1stJoy Hewitt MannLETTERS TO THE EDITORSPublished Criticism of MPR Poets?BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATSEditors Ego-Trip?JILLS TWO FUNTESTS FOR JANUARY 1993Haunting Memory and Ive Never Won ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of A(lfred) E(dward) Housman, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 3872 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
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One of the Finest Lyric Poets in English
A.E. Housman is sometimes spoken of as one of the "war poets," of the same period as Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Joyce Kilmer and others who wrote of the First World War.In point of fact, he was of the previous generation and published his most famous work, A Shropshire Lad, in 1896.Subsequent smaller volumes of his work, Last Poems, More Poems and Additional Poems, were published decades later, the latter two posthumously.All four sets of poems are contained in this volume.

Housman led a rather reclusive life, active in scholarly pursuits and teaching at several universities.Despite being known by close associates to have a sense of humor and being a skilled raconteur, he was considered even by his family to be rather stoic and cold.When Shropshire Lad first appeared, many were astounded by the passion with which he wrote of the seeming futility of life, the hearbreak of love and loss, and the utterly senseless waste of countless young lives lost in wars of empire.

Housman is, in this writer's opinion, one of the greatest of lyric poets writing in English.The rythms, alliteration, mythological allusions and romantic imagey that elicit an almost painful pathos, are rarely equaled.

If you're not familiar with Housman's work, this book is as good as it gets, including as it does all of his published work, with helpful introductory notes and indexing at the back.If you enjoy lyric poetry, don't miss this one. ... Read more

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Study of Housman's poetry twenty years after his death.
From the dustjacket:
"This is the first full-length study to be published of the poetry of A.E. Housman....Norman Marlow has investigated the many influences on Housman's poetry, from the little-known books he read at school to the Greek and Roman poets....

"[Marlow] then analyses the strikingly individual qualities of his style, its combination of Saxon forthrightness with classical precision, its repetitiveness and cunning use of simple metres.

"Housman's character remained an enigma, and the book begins with a short but fairly complete biographical sketch, while later the element of autobiography in the poems is thoroughly discussed.

"There is a chapter on the influence exerted in turn by Housman and other poets, and an amusing discussion of the way critics have handled and mishandled his poetry.This book is concerned mainly with the literary approach to the poems, but will be of equal interest to those who are fascinated by Housman the man." ... Read more