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    A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses
    A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses
    A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses
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    A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses

    By A. E. Housman

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    The complete editions of A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems together with an introduction by Keith Hale that ties the poems to their historical root: Housman's love for his friend Moses Jackson.

    .......... Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative. watersgreen.wix.com/watersgreenhouse

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWatersgreen House
    Release dateNov 7, 2013
    ISBN9781311517104
    A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses
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    A. E. Housman

    Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was born and brought up in the Bromsgrove region of Worcestershire, adjacent to Shropshire, and was educated locally and at St John's College, Oxford. Though he was a fine scholar, he failed to gin an Honours degree, and spent some years in the Patent Office in London. A series of brilliant academic articles secured him the Professorship of Latin at London University and he went on the become Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. Most famous for A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems was published in 1922, More Poems appeared posthumously and Collected Poems in 1939.

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