A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

A selective bibliography of 19 active links for A.E. Housman, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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Literary Criticism

Adair, Gilbert. The Guillotine, No 30: A.E. Housman, in The Independent (London), Aug 1, 1999

Bayley, John. "Blue remembered jokes" in The Spectator, Apr 11, 1998. On The Poems of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett

Burnett, Archie, ed. The Poems of A. E. Housman (Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), publisher's site

Burnett, Archie, ed. The Letters of A. E. Housman (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007), publisher's site

Butterfield, David. Review of Archie Burnett, The Letters of A. E. Housman. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 8/4/2007

Eyres, Harry. "The poet and the playwright," on A.E. Housman as the subject of Tom Stoppard's play The Invention of Love. In The Spectator, Sep 27, 1997

Holden, Alan W. and J. Roy Birch. A.E. Housman: A Reassessment (Palgrave, 1999), publisher's site

Johnson, Paul. "From Bromsgrove to Trinity." Review of The Letters of A E Housman, edited by Archie Burnett

Kermode, Frank. Review of The Letters of A.E. Housman ed. Archie Burnett. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 No. (5 July 2007)

Kopff, Christian. "Conservatism and creativity in A.E. Housman" in Modern Age, Summer, 2005

Leitch, Paul. Butterworth's Housman re-assessed lad culture, in Musical Times, Spring 1999

Leithauser, Brad. "A footnote for Housman," article on Housman's poetic practice in the New Criterion, Vol. 10, No. 1, September 1991

Raine, Craig. "The big issue and the private clue." Review of The Letters of A E Housman edited by Archie Burnett, in the Telegraph (UK), 6/7/07

Stoppard, Tom. "'The lad that loves you true.' AE Housman was notoriously reticent, but recently discovered letters reveal the intensity of a friendship begun as a young undergraduate at Oxford, which was to have a profound influence on his poetry and the rest of his life." 6/3/2006, The Guardian

Stoppard, Tom. "On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange." Letter by Tom Stoppard, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn, NY Review of Books, 10/19/2000


Introductory, overview, unsigned material, web sites

A very brief introduction to A.E. Housman from the Academy of American Poets

Very brief paragraph on A.E. Housman from The Columbia Encyclopedia

An introduction to Housman from the Gale Group

Web site for the Housman Society, which contains news about Housman programs, recent books, and a list of articles in the Housman Society Journal


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