The Poems of A. E. Housman
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 December 1997
- ISBN 9780198123224
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages640 pages
- Size 224x147x48 mm
- Weight 931 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first complete edition of A. E. Housman's poetry, unprecedented in the extent to which it reveals the shaping processes of his poetic thought. The text of the poems published after his death has been corrected from the manuscripts, with all variant readings recorded, and a substantial body of light verse and juvenilia is printed or collected for the first time. The extensive commentary traces the remarkable range of Housman's echoes and allusions - Biblical, Classical, and contemporary - which have never before been explored in such detail, as well as providing information on persons, places, and historical context, the dating of poems, and Housman's linguistic usage.
MoreLong description:
This is the first complete edition of A. E. Housman's poetry, unprecedented in the extent to which it reveals the shaping processes of his poetic thought. To the major poetry of The Collected Poems (1939) it adds a substantial body of light verse and juvenilia, some of it printed, or collected, for the first time; and it revises the texts - particularly the posthumously published poems and notebook fragments - in the light of a comprehensive survey of manuscript and printed sources, recording all textual variants. As well as charting his compositional practices, the edition illuminates the many sources, from Biblical and Classical to contemporary, which influenced Housman - consciously or unconsciously - in his choice of ideas, images, and phraseology. Drawing on the poet's two commonplace books, works he is known to have read, and volumes from his library, the editor's commentary traces the remarkable range of his echoes and allusions, which have never before been explored in such detail. The introduction and commentary also cover dating and other textual matters, information on persons, places, and historical context, and Housman's linguistic usage.
editing Housman's poetry is one of the tetchiest of challenges in English literary scholarship ... In his new Oxford edition of The Poems of A. E. Housman Archie Burnett looks to have triumphed. Here are 600 pages of minutely detailed scholarship. True evaluation of this edition will take as many years as its compilation, but I believe even Housman would have saluted its erudition.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
Introduction - Arrangement of the Poems; MSS, Printed Editions, and the Choice of Copy-Text; Copy-Text Conventions; The Textual Apparatus; Symbols Used; Dates of Composition; Commentary
THE TEXTS: A Shropshire Lad; Last Poems; More Poems; Additional Poems; Translations; Notebook Fragments; Light Verse and Juvenilia; Latin Verse
Accidental Variants
Commentary
Index of Titles and First Lines
