Collected Poems of A. E. Housman (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by A. E. Housman (Author)

ISBN: 9781853264115

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wordsworth Edition; New Ed edition (December 5, 1999)

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages

Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of it mannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.