{"product_id":"2026100010222-secondhand-the-collected-poems-of-a-e-housman","title":"The Collected Poems Of A. E. Housman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew poets have captured the bittersweet ache of youth, mortality, and the English countryside with the crystalline precision of A. E. Housman, and The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman brings together the full breadth of his singular genius in one definitive volume. Drawing from his beloved A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems (1922), and the posthumously published More Poems (1936), this collection presents a world of pastoral elegy where cherry trees bloom against a backdrop of inevitable loss, soldiers march toward oblivion, and young men wrestle with the indifferent passage of time.\n\nHousman's verse is characterised by a deceptive simplicity — his quatrains and ballad metres carry a compressed, almost epigrammatic intensity that has drawn comparisons to the Greek and Latin classical poets he translated and championed as a scholar. His influence on 20th-century English poetry is immeasurable, threading through the work of W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin alike. Published by the distinguished Jonathan Cape imprint, this collected edition is an essential possession for any serious reader of English verse — and for those yet to encounter Housman, it promises a haunting lyricism that, once read, is impossible to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948324983003,"sku":"2026100010222-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1e6b9406-b5b1-40e3-ab1f-d44e78593a8a.png?v=1793104694","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010222-secondhand-the-collected-poems-of-a-e-housman","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}