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This volume is pivotal reading for laypersons looking for an accurate understanding of the private life and public career of A.E. Housman. Furthermore, it is also essential for any reader seeking to recover a truer image of the Victorian man who, during his lifetime, issued two collections of Romantic poems, A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. It will be of particular interest to history buffs, poets, professors and students of classical studies, and instructors in literary criticism, given that it sketches Housman's biography and examines in detail his scholarship.

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This collection of essays will serve to introduce and put in context the monumental achievement of one of the most gifted classical scholars of the late 19th and early 20th century. Known as both a poet in his own right and a formidable textual critic of Greek and Latin poetry, A. E. Housman is a towering figure who is made accessible in these pages. As a bonus, the author includes an appendix in which he explores what can be known, or surmised, about Housman's private life. John T. Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Illinois at Chicago An impressive performance and one that very few people would be qualified to undertake. The section on the History of Textual Criticism is a brilliant tour-de-force of amazingly well-documented scholarship. Interpretations of individual poems are thoughtful and original. The final section on Housman's alleged homosexuality is superb - the best thing that has ever been written on that subject. Darrell is a scholar of extraordinary depth and range, and I wish he could devote all his time to scholarship with no distractions. Fred C. Robinson (1930-2016)Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University

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D. Antoine Sutton received his Doctor of Ministry from Knox Theological Seminary, USA, and is a Pastor in the small hamlet of Red Cloud, Nebraska. He is a biblicist whose specialisms and reading and research interests include comparative Semitic philology; the poetry and textual criticism of A.E. Housman; the text and transmission of Manilius' Astronomica; the origins and formation of classical Islam; divinity studies during the Enlightenment; and the use of typology as a literary and theological device in the exegesis of ancient Greek and Roman poetry. He is also the editor of The Ds Commentary on Books, an academic review-bulletin.

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