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Résumé :

A SHROPSHIRE LAD (1896)

1. THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, unsigned notice, The Times, March 1896

2. HUBERT BLAND, unsigned review, New Age, April 1896

3 O.O., review, Sketch, April 1896

4. 'CLAUDIUS CLEAR' (WILLIAM ROBERTSON NICOLL), British Weekly, April 1896

5. A.M. (ANNIE MACDONELL?), review, Bookman, June 1896

6 Unsigned review, Guardian, June 1896

7. NORMAN GALE, review, Academy, July 1896

8. LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY, review, Chap-Book (Chicago), February 1897

9. Unsigned notice, Literary World (Boston), April 1897

10. Unsigned notice, Citizen (Philadelphia), November 1897

A SHROPSHIRE LAD (1898)

11. WILLIAM ARCHER, review, Fortnightly Review, August 1898

12. Unsigned notice, Outlook, September 1898

13. Unsigned review, Academy, October 1898

14. Unsigned notice, Bookman (London), October 1898

I5. Unsigned notice, Athenaeum, October 1898

16. 'The Funereal Muse', Literature, October 1898

17. Unsigned review, Saturday Review (London), November 1898

18. CHARLES SORLEY on A Shropshire Lad, May 1913

19. JAMES ELROY FLECKER, from 'The New Poetry and Mr. Housman's Shropshire Lad', undated, pre-1915

20. HOLBROOK JACKSON, 'The Poetry of A.E. Housman', To-day, August 1919

21. HAROLD MONRO on Housman, 1920

LAST POEMS (1922)

22. 'The Shropshire Lad again', Times Literary Supplement, October 1922

23. EDMUND GOSSE, 'The Shropshire Lad', Sunday Times, October 1922

24. D.C.T., 'Professor Housman's Last Poems', Cambridge Review, October 1922

25. B.S., review, Manchester Guardian Weekly, November 1922

26. J.C. SQUIRE, review, London Mercury, November 1922

27. AMABEL WILLIAMS-ELLIS, review, Spectator, November 1922

28. Unsigned notice, English Review, December 1922

29. JOHN FREEMAN, 'Hail and Farewell', Bookman (London), December 1922

30. Unsigned review, Outlook, December 1922

31. LEE WILSON DODD, The Stoic Muse', Literary Review, December 1922

32. J.B. PRIESTLEY, 'The Poetry of A.E. Housman', London Mercury, December 1922

33. H.J. DAVIS, 'An English Poet', Canadian Forum, January 1923

34. STEWART MARSH ELLIS, review, Fortnightly Review, January 1923

35. G.H.C. (GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE), review, Sewanee Review, January 1923

36. WALLACE B. NICHOLS, 'Mr. A.E. Housman's Return', Poetry Review, January-February 1923

37. CLEMENT WOOD, 'The Shropshire Corydon: Opus lI', Nation (New York), February 1923

38. WILLIAM A. NORRIS, review, New Republic, February, 1923

39. WILLIAM ROSE BEN?T, 'The Book of the Month: A.E. Housman's Last Poems', Bookman (New York), March 1923

40. O.W. FIRKINS, 'Living Verse', Yale Review, July 1923

41. EDWARD SAPIR, 'Mr. Housman's Last Poems', Dial, August 1923

42. F.L. LUCAS, 'Few, but Roses', New Statesman and Nation, October 1923

43. J.C. SQUIRE, 'Mr. A.E. Housman', 1923

44. J.F. MACDONALD, from 'The Poetry of A.E. Housman', Queen's Quarterly, Fall 1923

45. OSBERT BURDETT on Housman, 1925

46. IOLO WILLIAMS on Housman, 1927

47. H.W. GARROD, 'Mr. A.E. Housman', 1929

48. CHARLES WILLIAMS, 'A.E. Housman', 1930

THE NAME AND NATURE OF POETRY (1933)

49. LASCELLES ABER CROMBIE, 'A.E. Housman on Poetry', Manchester Guardian Weekly, June 1933

50. G.W. STONIER, 'Pr...

Biographie:

First published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951. It contains ninety-four items-articles, reviews, and comments which provide an accurate picture of how Housman the poet was seen during his lifetime and for some years beyond it. The picture which emerges is of a poet not only of popular appeal, but of great literary distinction, who was admired by the majority of reviewers and critics who discussed his work. Among those quoted are J.B. Priestley, Edmund Gosse, Cyril Connolly, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Cleanth Brooke, Stephen Spender, John Sparrow, and E.M. Forster.