The Collected Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few voices in English poetry carry the aching clarity of A. E. Housman's — a poet whose spare, classical verse distilled the transience of youth, beauty, and life into lines of almost unbearable precision. The Collected Poems gathers the complete body of his verse, including the celebrated A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, and the posthumously published More Poems, presenting readers with the full arc of a literary life defined by stoic melancholy and lyrical perfection. Set against the pastoral landscapes of the English Midlands, his poetry chronicles the inevitability of loss, the cruelty of time, and the quiet heroism of those who face mortality without illusion. Housman's style — taut, musical, and deceptively simple — owes as much to the Latin classical tradition as it does to the English ballad, and his influence on 20th-century verse, from W. H. Auden to Philip Larkin, is immeasurable. A scholar of formidable reputation, he brought to his poetry the same rigorous intellect that defined his academic career, producing work of extraordinary compression and emotional depth. For those who have never encountered his verse, this collection offers a revelation; for those who already know it, it remains a book one returns to again and again — always finding something new in its shadows.
Author: A. E. Housman
Format: Paperback
Published: 1949, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few voices in English poetry carry the aching clarity of A. E. Housman's — a poet whose spare, classical verse distilled the transience of youth, beauty, and life into lines of almost unbearable precision. The Collected Poems gathers the complete body of his verse, including the celebrated A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, and the posthumously published More Poems, presenting readers with the full arc of a literary life defined by stoic melancholy and lyrical perfection. Set against the pastoral landscapes of the English Midlands, his poetry chronicles the inevitability of loss, the cruelty of time, and the quiet heroism of those who face mortality without illusion. Housman's style — taut, musical, and deceptively simple — owes as much to the Latin classical tradition as it does to the English ballad, and his influence on 20th-century verse, from W. H. Auden to Philip Larkin, is immeasurable. A scholar of formidable reputation, he brought to his poetry the same rigorous intellect that defined his academic career, producing work of extraordinary compression and emotional depth. For those who have never encountered his verse, this collection offers a revelation; for those who already know it, it remains a book one returns to again and again — always finding something new in its shadows.