Fifty years ago, A. E. Housman published, at his own expense, the first edition of A Shropshire Lad. The latest edition, which does homage to that event, is published by the Colby Library in ...

The Invention of Love centers on the life of A E Housman, the famous poet and scholar. In the play, an old Housman dreams that he is dead. As Charon, the mythical boatman, ferries him across the River ...

THE best book of the week was A. E. Housman’s “The Name and Nature of Poetry.” Mr. Housman is an annoying man: hardly a young poet is alive who hasn’t discovered at one time or another, among his own ...

See Oxford University through the eyes of renowned poet A E Housman – Olivier, BAFTA, and Tony award-winning actor Simon Russell Beale – in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. Housman is, as he ...