A E Housman, Hero of the Hidden Life

A biography of the poet and author of A Shropshire Lad

Author

Edgar Vincent

Publisher

Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2018

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 499pp.

A biography of the poet and classical scholar A E Housman. Drawing on Housman's published letters and on 81 significant new finds, Edgar Vincent conjures up a new Housman, created out of his reactions to the events of his life as he experienced them. It weaves together his scholarly life and the biographical elements in his poetry to examine his emotional and sexual needs with dispassion and empathy and to uncover his hidden sensibilities and creative world.