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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 first illustrated edition of A Shropshire Lad (1908), cover design by William Hyde. The first illustrated edition of A Shropshire Lad was published in 1908, with eight county landscapes by William Hyde. [28] Those did not meet with Housman's approval, however: "They were in colour, which always looks vulgar," he reported. [29]
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.
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The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism (NATC) is an anthology of literary theory and criticism written in or translated to English that is published by the W. W. Norton & Company, one of several such compendiums. The first edition was published in 2001, with a second edition published in 2010 and a third in 2018.
Writing to his publisher in December, 1920, Housman scornfully observed of an illustrated edition of the poem, “How like an artist to think that the speaker is a woman!” [1] A heterosexual male reading could still be given the lament then because, at the time, Housman's homosexuality was unsuspected. Later the possibility that the poem ...
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After serving in the Second World War, Hart-Davis returned to his pre-war occupation as a publisher.In 1946 he founded Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, in partnership with David Garnett and Edward Young and with financial backing from Eric Linklater, Arthur Ransome, H. E. Bates, Geoffrey Keynes, and Celia and Peter Fleming.