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02849aam a2200349 i 4500 001 DBF25A6AE19111E89124B82197128E48 003 SILO 005 20181106010116 008 180207s2018 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2017486363 020 $a 1783272414 020 $a 9781783272419 035 $a (OCoLC)1004734274 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d WTU $d LTSCA $d INU $d ERASA $d MNO $d OCLCF $d STF $d OCL $d GYG $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR4809 H15 V56 2018 100 1 $a Vincent, Edgar, $e author. 245 10 $a A.E. Housman : $b hero of the hidden life / $c Edgar Vincent. 264 1 $a Woodbridge : $b Boydell & Brewer Ltd. $c 2018. 300 $a xxii, 499 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 466-472) and index. 520 $a "A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a celebrated poet and the foremost classicist of his day. His poetry was set to music by numerous composers including Arthur Somervell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland and Samuel Barber. Housman's painstaking vocation, to restore classical manuscripts by correcting textual errors, took up virtually the whole of his working life. A seemingly inaccessible, aloof man, he never set out to be a professional poet, yet poetry poured out of him and became his monument. His renowned A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems were born of an inner crisis, sparked by a profound but unreciprocated attachment for a fellow undergraduate. To be sexually different in the time of Oscar Wilde was to invite ostracism and disgust. This fact, allied with his secretiveness and penchant for irony, reinforced his reticence on personal matters. Until now, he has remained a hidden personality, held in the public mind as prim and grim. This biography reveals by contrast a man of many facets, one companionable in small groups, generous to a fault, and always on the lookout for humour and fun; a master of English prose; a witty and compelling after-dinner speaker; an occasional writer of nonsense verse; a frequenter of the music hall; an intrepid early traveller by air; and a connoisseur of food and wine. Drawing on Housman's published letters and on 81 significant new finds, Edgar Vincent conjures up a new Housman, created out of his reactions to the events of his life as he experienced them."--Dust jacket. 600 10 $a Housman, A. E. $q (Alfred Edward), $d 1859-1936. 650 0 $a Poets, English $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Poets, English $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Classicists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103015731.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20181218010138.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DBF25A6AE19111E89124B82197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search