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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787789703321

Titolo

A.E. Housman : classical scholar / / edited by D. J. Butterfield and C. A. Stray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury, , 2009

ISBN

1-4725-2107-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ButterfieldD. J <1985-> (David James)

StrayChristopher

Disciplina

809.9142

Soggetti

Classicism - Great Britain

Classicists - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Housman and Propertius / S.J. Heyworth -- Housman's Manilius / E. Courtney -- Housman's Juvenal / R.G.M. Nisbet -- Housman, Lucan and Fraenkel / S.P. Oakley -- Housman and Ovid's Ibis / G.D. Williams -- Housman on metre and prosody / D.J. Butterfield -- Dust and fudge : manuscripts in Housman's generation / M.D. Reeve -- Housman and R.C. Jebb : intellectual styles and the politics of metre / C.A. Stray -- Housman and J.P. Postgate / N. Hopkinson -- Housman and W.M. Lindsay / D.J. Butterfield -- Housman and A.S. Hunt / L. Lehnus -- Classical scholarship in Housman's correspondence / J.H.C. Leach -- Lessons learned from a master / G. Luck -- "For we are also his offspring" / E.J. Kenney -- Housman's cap and pen / J. Diggle.

Sommario/riassunto

A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private life, no previous work has focused on Housman the classical scholar; yet it is upon scholarship that Housman most wished to leave his mark.   This timely collection of papers by leading scholars reass