Housman Country: Into the Heart of England - Paperback
by Peter Parker
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374537869ISBN-10:374537860UPC:9780374537869Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PoetrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.22 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCNTBDARWS
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation...Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374537869ISBN-10:374537860UPC:9780374537869Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PoetrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.22 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCNTBDARWS
Peter Parker was born in Herefordshire and was educated in the Malverns, Dorset, and London. He is the author ofThe Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos and biographies of J. R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood. He edited The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel and The Reader's Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers, and was an associate editor of the Oxford...
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