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Major works
• poems • essay • music and songs • Literature • Film and television
poem
A Shropshire Lad Last Poems Fragment of a Greek Tragedy Unkind to Unicorns Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
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• 2.Essay
• De Amicitia (about friendship):
• In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled “A. E. Housman’s ‘De Amicitia’” in the British Library. The essay discussed A. E. Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.
Housman found his true destiny in classical studies and treated poetry as a secondary activity. He never spoke about his poetry in public until 1933 when he gave a lecture, The Name and Nature of Poetry, in which he argued that poetry should appeal to emotions rather than to the intellect. However, quite contrary to his usual outward appearance, he allowed himself several hedonistic [hi:də'nistik]( 快乐主义 者的)pleasures: gastronomy [ɡæs'trɔnəmi] (享乐主义), flying in airplanes and frequently visiting France.
• 1.Poems:
• During his years in London, A.E Housman completed his cycle of 63 poems, A Shropshire Lad. It rapidly became a lasting success, and its theme resonated powerfully with English readers. The poems are full of deep pessimism and preoccupation with death.
• He published his best unpublished poems as Last Poems (1922) before Moses Jackson died because he wanted him to read them before his death.
• Housman also wrote a parodic Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English, and humorous poems published posthumously under the title Unkind to Unicorns独角兽.
• “ Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?”, the poem written after the trial of Oscar Wilde, addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the poem, he made the prisoner’s hair color as a clearly coded reference to homosexuality.
• 3.Music and art song: • Between 1909 and 1911 George Butterworth produced
settings in two collections, as Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, and Bredon Hill and other songs. He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad. Butterworth and Ivor Gurney are most important setters of Housman. A 1976 catalogue listed 400 musical settings of Housman’s poems. Housman’s poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman’s works provided song texts, while Whitman’s the texts for larger choral works. The impact in music of Housman’s poetry has not been limited in time, place or style. Songwriters have also drawn much from the great poet’s work.
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Introduction of the Author
A.E. Housman (short for Alfred Edward Housman) was born on March 26th of 1859 in a family of a country solicitor （ 律 师；法务官)as the eldest of seven children and died on April 30th, 1936. He was an English classical poet, scholar and one of the foremost classicists, best known for his cycle of poems--- A Shropshire Lad.He was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later at Cambridge on the strength and quality of his work.