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Alfred Edward Housman (/ ˈ h aʊ s m ən /; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
The poet and scholar A. E. Housman challenged such reactive applications in 1922, in the provocatively titled article "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". [8] On the other hand, taken as an axiom, the principle lectio difficilior produces an eclectic text, rather than one based on a history of manuscript transmission.
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Charles Wilfred Orr, who made 24 Housman settings, united some in cycles of two (1921–1922), seven (1934) and three songs (1940). [26] Lennox Berkeley's 5 Housman Songs (Op.14/3, 1940) also dates from the start of World War II. Another cycle composed since then has been the five in Mervyn Horder's A Shropshire Lad (1980).
Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks FBA (born 18 September 1933) [1] is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University (US), co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (UK) from 2004 to 2009.
Ivor Gurney's Ludlow and Teme, the version for tenor voice, piano and string quartet (1923). When I Was One-and-Twenty is the first line of the untitled Poem XIII from A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad (1896), but has often been anthologised and given musical settings under that title.
The Letters of A.E. Housman: Housman, A. E. Maas, Henry (editor) 1971 Stalin: The History of a Dictator: Hyde, H. Montgomery: 1972 Mozart's Concerto Form: Forman, Denis 1972 A History of Mexico: Cheetham, Nicolas, Sir: 1972 Peace for Our Time: Parkinson, Roger 1972 The Earth and Its Satellite: various Guest, John (editor) 1972 English Poetry ...
Psychological biblical criticism [1] is a re-emerging field within biblical criticism that seeks to examine the psychological dimensions of scripture through the use of the behavioral sciences. The title itself involves a discussion about "the intersections of three fields: psychology , the Bible, and the tradition of rigorous, critical reading ...