{"product_id":"a-e-housman-selected-prose-paperback-9780521091404","title":"A. E. Housman: Selected Prose (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521091404","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA. E. Housman: Selected Prose\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA selection of Housman's writings, both scholarly and general, which decisively confirms his reputation as a prose stylist.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eA. E. Housman (Author), John Carter (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521091404, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 January 1961\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e222 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm, 0.25 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLovers of Housman's poetry and admirers of his scholarship have long been aware, from the Introductory Lecture of 1892 and The Name and Nature of Poetry, 1933, that he was also master of a highly individual prose style; and others besides classical students have relished the pungency of the famous preface to his edition of Manilius. Here, in addition to these, is a selection of Housman's writings, both scholarly and general, gathered from periodicals and other out-of-the-way sources, which decisively confirms his reputation as a prose stylist. The prefaces, the adversaria and the reviews, in particular, give the layman an idea of the precision and the penetration of exact scholarship. Housman's comments and judgements on other men illuminate his own nature: withdrawn, austere, even crusty, yet gentle with the unassuming; ruthless in exposure of arrogance and pretension.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Introductory Lecture (1892)\u003cbr\u003e Part II. From the Prefaces: 1. Manilius I (1903)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Manilius V (1930)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Juvenal (1905)\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Reviews, Adversaria and Letters to the Press: 1. Tucker's Supplices of Aeschylus (1890)\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Manuscripts of Propertius (1892, 1894)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Schulze's edition of Baehrens' Catullus (1894)\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Manuscripts of Propertius (1895)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Palmer's Heroides of Ovid (1899)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tremeheere's Cynthia of Propertius (1900)\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Line in Lucan (1901)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Remarks on the Culex (1902)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Owen's Persius and Juvenal - A caveat (1904)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Ellis's Catullus (1905)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Luciliana (1907)\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. IX: The Period of the French Revolution (1915)\u003cbr\u003e 14. A Georgian History of Victorian Literature (The Cambridge History of English Literature, vols. XIII an XIV) (1917)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Bywater's Four Centuries of Greek Learning in England (1920)\u003cbr\u003e 16. Simpson's Louis Napoleon and the Recovery of France (1923)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Keats' Fall of Hyperion, line 97 (1924)\u003cbr\u003e 18. Dr Fraenkel's Appointment (1934)\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism (1921)\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Biographical: 1. J. M. Image (1919)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Arthur Platt (1927)\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Ceremonial: 1. The Trinity College Addresses (1913, 1919)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Address to Sir James George Frazer (1921)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Address of Condolence (1925)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Address of Congratulations (1935)\u003cbr\u003e Part VII: The Name and Nature of Poetry\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index of names.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000907125016,"sku":"9780521091404","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521091404i_fc40111a-6db1-44d7-9ceb-3c1140bd1346.jpg?v=1694970437","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-e-housman-selected-prose-paperback-9780521091404","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}