The poems of A. E. Housman
Features poetry that reveals the shaping processes of the author's poetic thought. This work also contains commentary that traces the range of echoes and allusions - Biblical, Classical, and contemporary, as well as providing information on persons, places, and historical context, the dating of poems, and his linguistic usage.
LX, 580 p. 22 cm
9780198123224, 0198123221
1014866189
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