In person, A. E. Housman was so shy and furtive that Max Beerbohm once compared him to “an absconding cashier.” For such a crabbed and elusive figure, though, he continues to draw a surprising amount ...

In 1898, an enterprising young publisher made a deal with Alfred Housman, a Latin professor at University College London, to reissue his first book of poems, “A Shropshire Lad,” which had sold just ...

The landscape that moves me most in all the world is that of Shropshire and Herefordshire in England and the adjacent Welsh border country. I do not mean by this that it is the most beautiful ...

NEW YORK — Well, knock me over with a copy of Catullus. “The Invention of Love,” Tom Stoppard’s 1997 play about the sometime poet and devoted Latin scholar A.E. Housman, has become the improbable snob ...

ANOTHER volume of A. E. Housman’s delicate lyrics comes as a surprise in event rather than in matter. We know the mood and the voice; a continuation of them enriches us almost reminiscently. Housman’s ...

MORE POEMS -A. E. Housman -Knopf ($2). A. E. HOUSMAN-A. S. F. Gow-Macmillan ($1.75). THE UNEXPECTED YEARS-Laurence Housman-Bobbs-Merrill ($3). When Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) published his ...

MY BROTHER, A. E. HOUSMAN—Laurence Housman—Scribner ($3). When a writer is dead, his admirers feel that at least he is now safe: there will be no senile juvenilia from him. Then comes the literary ...