A.E. Housman: Hero of the Hidden Life

by Edgar Vincent

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783272414
• ISBN13: 9781783272419
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"