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Late Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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reviews: TLS, 19 Oct 1922; (Gosse, E.) Sunday Times, 22 Oct 1922;
(Squire, J. C.) London Mercury 7, Nov 1922; (Williams-Ellis, A.)
Spectator 4, Nov 1922; (Freeman, J.) Bookman (London) 63, Dec
1922; (Priestley, J. B.) London Mercury 7, Dec 1922; (Benét, W.R.)
Bookman (New York) 57, Mar 1923; (Firkins, O.W.) Yale Rev 12,
July 1923; (Sapir, E.) Dial 75, Aug 1923; (Lucas, F.L.) New
Statesman and Nation, 20 Oct 1923.
Fragment of a Greek tragedy. Amherst MA 1925 (priv ptd, 92 copies).
1st pbd Bromsgrovian 2, 8 June 1883, rptd Univ College Gazette
1897; Cornhill Mag, Apr 1901; Trinity Mag 2, Feb 1921. Parody.
Preface to Nine essays by Arthur Platt. Cambridge 1927.
The name and nature of poetry. Cambridge 1933, New York 1933;
rptd Cambridge 1937, 1939, 1945, New York 1936, 1939, 1989 (with
‘other selected prose’). (Leslie Stephen Lecture, Univ of
Cambridge. Tr Sp Mexico City [1945] (O. G. Barreda); Ital, Pistoia
1958 (R. Anzilotti; appendix to his La poesía di A. E. Housman).
Three poems: the parallelogram, the amphisbaena, the crocodile.
Univ College London 1935 (priv ptd, 55 copies); ed W. White, Los
Angeles 1941; 1st pbd respectively Union Mag of Univ College
London i, Dec. 1904; 2, June 1906; 5, Mar 1911.
More poems. Ed L. Housman 1936. New York 1936 (text not identical
with London edn).
Memorial suppl to Bromsgrovian. Bromsgrove 1936 (Nov). Contains
some early verse not hitherto rptd.
Additional poems. In L. Housman, A.E.H.: some poems, some
letters and a personal memoir, 1937. Nos 1–18 of the ‘additional
poems’ rptd in Collected poems, 1939, above.
Alfred Edward Housman: recollections. New York 1937. Text as
Memorial suppl 1936 (above) with addns and corrections.
A morning with the Royal Family. Los Angeles 1941 (illus), London
1955 (priv ptd by Cape). 1st pbd Bromsgrovian 1, 15 Feb 1882; 1, 29
Mar 1882. Prose.
The manuscript poems of A. E. Housman. Ed from Housman’s notebooks
by T. B. Haber. London and Minneapolis MN 1955.
The confines of criticism. Cambridge 1969. Complete text, with
notes by J. Carter, of Housman’s 1911 Cambridge inaugural
lecture. 1st pbd, slightly incomplete, TLS, 9 May 1968. Title is not
Housman’s.
Contributions to periodicals
The death of Socrates. Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly
Messenger, 8 Aug 1874, rptd with commentary in W. White, The
death of Socrates: Housman’s first published poem, PMLA 68,
1953.
Sir Walter Raleigh (1873) In W. White, Un poème inédit de
Housman: Sir Walter Raleigh, Etudes Anglaises 6, 1953.
Such few other poems as Housman published in periodicals were rptd in his
various collections, except for those in Ye Rounde Table (Oxford), 1878 (see
Haber, 1967, §2).
Letters
Housman, L. In his A.E.H.: some poems, some letters and a personal
memoir, 1937.
Martin, H. With letters from Housman. Yale Rev 26, 1936.
Richards, G. In his Housman 1897–1936, Oxford 1941.
Letters from Housman to E. H. Blakeney. Winchester 1941 (priv ptd
by Blakeney, 18 copies).
White, W. More Housman letters. Mark Twain Quart 5, 1943.
Clemens, C. Some unpublished Housman letters. Poet Lore 57, 1947.
White, W. Fifteen unpublished letters by Housman. Dalhousie Rev
29, 1950.
White, W. Published letters of A. E. Housman: a survey. BB 22, 1957.
Thirty Housman letters to Witter Bynner. Ed T. B. Haber, New York
1957.
White, W. A. E. Housman to Joseph Ishill: five unpublished letters.
Berkeley Heights NJ 1959 (priv ptd).
Haber, T. B. Three unreported letters of Housman. PBSA 57, 1963.
Maas, H. The letters of A. E. Housman. 1971.
Fifteen letters from Housman to Walter Ashburner. Ed. A. Bell,
Edinburgh 1976
Attributed work
Two cities. Hampstead 1904. Prose.
This item not listed by W. White 1982, nor by BL catalogue. It appears in
National Union Catalogue, thus: ‘[Alfred Edward Housman] Two
cities. Printed and published for the author at the Asphodel Press,
XVIII Well Walk, Hampstead, the twelfth day of June 1904. 16pp.’
The 2 cities are Edessa and Merv. W. White in Two problems in A. E.
Housman bibliography, PBSA 45, 1951, referred to Two cities, which he
described as being of 14 pp. with 2 woodcuts, as ‘an example of the 1st problem’
(i.e. ‘the inclusion of spurious [. . .] items’). White added ‘This prose tale has
appeared at least twice in catalogues, under the name of A. E. Housman, but
there is absolutely no other evidence that he is the author [. . .] I should therefore
be interested to receive evidence to support its authenticity.’ No evidence
was forthcoming in PBSA for 1952–4; none of White’s subsequent contributions
to PBSA, 1954–66, refer to the matter.
Imitations (parodies)
Hugh Kingsmill. The table of truth. 1933. Contains (pp. 116–17) ‘Two
poems: after A. E. Housman’ (the 1st of which was in Housman’s
view the best parody of him) and ‘In a charabanc (Robert
Browning’s version of A. E. Housman’s ‘Bredon Hill’)’.
Terence Beersay (pseud.) A Shropshire lag. 1936 (99 copies). 7 parodies
of Housman.
Stephen L. Robertson (pseud.) The Shropshire racket. 1937 (illustr T.
Derrick). 20 parodies of Housman.
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Sorley, C. In The letters of Charles Sorley, Cambridge 1919. Paper, c.
1913 on A Shropshire lad.
Flecker, J. E. The new poetry and Mr Housman’s Shropshire lad. In
his Collected prose, 1922. Unfinished (pre-1915), essay.
Jackson, H. The poetry of A. E. Housman. Today 5 1919.
Monro, H. Section 1, pt 3, Some contemporary poets, 1920.
Symons, K. E. Memories of A. E. H. Edwardian 17, Sep 1936. More
memories of A.E.H. Ibid 17, Dec 1936. Recollections by
Housman’s sister.
Tillotson, G. The publication of Housman’s comic poems English 1,
1937, rptd in his Essays in criticism and research, Cambridge
1942.
Clemens, C. An evening with A.E. Housman. Webster Groves MO
1937.
Gow, A. S. F. A. E. Housman: a sketch. Cambridge 1936.
Housman, L. A.E.H.: Some poems, some letters and a personal
memoir. 1937. New York 1938 (as My brother, A. E. Housman).
Withers, P. A buried life: personal recollections of A. E. Housman.
1940.
Richards, G. Housman 1897–1936. Oxford 1941.
A Shropshire lad bibliography. TLS, 30 Mar 1946.
White, W. A Shropshire lad in process: the textual evolution of some
A. E. Housman poems. Library 5th ser 9, 1954.
Sparrow, J. Review of Haber, The manuscript poems of A. E.
Housman (1955), TLS, 29 Apr 1955.
Carter, J. The Housman mss in the Library of Congress. Bk Collector
4, 1955.
Carter, J. The text of Housman’s poems. TLS, 15 June 1956.
Carter, J. Housman’s contributions to an Oxford magazine. Bk
Collector 6, 1957.
Watson, G. L. A. E. Housman: a divided life. 1957.
Haber, T. B. The making of A Shropshire lad: a manuscript variorum.
Seattle and London 1960.
Haber, T. B. Housman’s notebooks and his posthumous poetry. Iowa
Eng Yearbook 8, 1963.
Haber, T. B. Three unreported letters of Housman. PBSA 57, 1963.