The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
ISBN: 978-1-85326-411-5
Author : Alfred Edward Housman
Total Pages: 192
Price: £3.99

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, University of Kent at Canterbury

Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed  to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of it mannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.