by Peter Parker
bluebells, it may be To Susan Owen, 21 February 1918, Owen, Letters, p. 535
god of Canongate Poems (Stallworthy), pp. 56, 86
dear, clever lads To Susan Owen, 2 December 1914 and 16 June 1915, Owen, Letters, pp. 300, 340
preciously preserved To Susan Owen, 18 Aug 1915, ibid., p. 356
Perseus was a sailor To Susan Owen, 10 April 1915, ibid., p. 334
pity ‘Preface’ to Owen, Poems (1920), p. vii
all half dead To Susan Owen, 6 or 8 April 1917 and 16 Jan 1917, Owen, Letters, pp. 450 and p. 428
stood by To Susan Owen, 12 Feb 1917, ibid., p. 434
the bleeding lad’s To Susan Owen, 13 Aug 1917, ibid., p. 483
the best lad To Susan Owen, 3 Dec 1917, ibid., p. 514
Shropshire lads whose To Susan Owen, 21 June 1918, ibid., p. 560
at least two lads To Susan Owen, 15 Sept 1918, ibid., p. 577
stout lad ‘The Parable of the Old Man and the Young’ and ‘The Dead-Beat’, Poems (Stallworthy), pp. 151, 121
like the Woolwich Cadet ‘S.I.W.’, ibid., p. 137
Beauty Ibid., p. 180
Which long to nuzzle ‘Arms and the Boy’, ibid., p. 131
Some cheered him home Ibid., p. 152
Strange to think 12 Sept 1924, Sassoon, Diaries 1923–1925, p. 197
Adventurous lads Sassoon, War Poems, p. 126
shell-holes dying slow Ibid., p. 83
head to head Ibid., p. 121
some wiped-out impossible Attack Ibid., p. 89
kind and gay Ibid., pp. 119, 143
Oh lad that I loved Ibid., p. 123
Here dead we lie MP XXXVI
An album of ‘My Grandfather’ in Morpurgo, p. 283
penetrated his cheekbone Ibid., p. 292
VI. The Rediscovery of England
epigraph Morton, p. vii
The sight of a number Rothenstein 1900–1922, pp. 298–9
Designed as a Memorial Exhibition catalogue, p. 238
my 60 feet of canvas Rothenstein 1900–1922, p. 310
This book is a debt Mais, Oh! To Be in England, p. 9
I am told that Ibid., p. 10
If any of these Ibid., p. 11
stood under Ibid., pp. 12–13
very magnificent To GR, 5 Feb 1927, Letters II, p. 9
seventeen haphazard excursions Mais, Unknown, p. vii
an expensive Ibid., p. viii
I had more letters Ibid., p. ix
Happiness is not Ibid., p. 177
I have a feeling Ibid., pp. 184–5
Shropshire names Ibid., p. 188
this generation has replaced Joad, p. 12
help all, especially Quoted Matless, p. 72
long before I owned HSJ 8 (1982), p. 1
The remarkable system Morton, p. vii
a strong desire ‘On Pilgrimage in England’, TLS, 28 March 1942
number of privately owned cars Figures from Wild, p. 120
I suppose many Morton, pp. 3–4
only religious moment Ibid., p. 3
For months I have Ibid., pp. 185–6
A Sunday hush Ibid., p. 279
I took up a handful Ibid., p. 280
There could have been Baldwin, On England, pp. 8–9
I see the hills Quoted Cannadine, pp. 105–6
most unclubbable Jones, p. 207
as the Chancellor said Baldwin, Torch, pp. 124–5
That is all we want Ibid., pp. 304–5, 306
And when I ask myself Baldwin, On England, pp. 5–6
there lies, deep down Baldwin, Torch, p. 120
reveals and expresses … This is the work Quotes from jacket of Baldwin, On England
At no time TLS, 28 March 1942
There has been nothing Quoted on The King’s England Press website: http://www.kingsengland.com/PBCPPlayer.asp?ID=773748
the largest essay Heathcote, p. 1
Leave your books Mais, Oh!, p. 11
Even today Quoted Cannadine, p. 108
I don’t believe Quoted Jessica Brett Young, p. 27
Ever since my childhood Quoted Cannadine, p. 109
the grimy tentacles Francis Brett Young, p. 50
had often wistfully Ibid., p. 193
Ah Shropshire Ibid., p. 4
Twenty-five years ago Ibid., p. 8
a landscape warm Ibid., p. 50
beyond which Ibid.
the green brooklands Ibid., p. 49
It was odd Ibid., p. 50
tarnished… jingle Ibid., pp. 54, 84, 91
All through this Ibid., p. 204
never bought a book Ibid., p. 140
had marked Ibid., p. 328
It was odd how Ibid., p. 317
dead and rotten MP XL
it is unthinkable Fussell, Wartime, p. 247
When he died Armed Services edition, pp. 127–8
was commissioned Percy, p. 25
When I was posted Birch, Westminster Abbey, p. 15
His family, his friends Peel, p. 57
Access to books The Salopian, June 1946, p. 231
It obviously spoke Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Woolwich, in Soul Music: A Shropshire Lad, BBC Radio 4, 11 November 2014
VII. Aftermaths
down in the most beautiful The account of his brother’s death is in D. Hurd, Memoirs, pp. 79–87
went on vibrating Ricks, Critical Essays, p. 23
His poems have entered Birch, Westminster Abbey, p. 29
my feeling is that Blunden to Sassoon, 30 Sept 1940, Sassoon, Letters, Vol. 2, p. 265
not the same thing Sassoon to Blunden, 20 Oct 1940, ibid., p. 266
the authentic procession Sassoon to Blunden, 21 Jan 1954, ibid., p. 57
I consider A.E. Housman Amis, Letters, p. 1106
Housman has left no MacNeice, Modern Poetry, p. 83
Housman is easy to Carey, p. 96
Housman by heart MacNeice, Letters, p. 591
Art for him Auden, Prose 1939–1948, p. 43
are all Housman’s Auden, Juvenilia, p. 13
made up of magical Auden, Prose 1939–1948, p. 155
‘A Shock’ Auden, Collected Poems, p. 866
ear and eye HSJ 7 (1981), p. 16
I think primarily Parkinson, ITV, date unknown
fellow townsman Haffenden, p. 79; Hill, Broken Hierarchies, p. 484
Before I knew anything Haffenden, p. 79
Morcom was Turing’s muse Quoted in Lyon and McDonald, p. 85
‘Cut Grass’ Larkin, Poems, p. 183
faces the worst Poet on Poet of the Week: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?showdoc=43
I have a great shrinking Larkin to Pym, 8 April 1963, in Larkin, Letters, p. 351
the poet of unhappiness Larkin, Required Writing, p. 264
In 1967 it was estimated Haber, A.E. Housman, p. 177
assume that his poems Quoted T.B. Haber, Papers of the Bibliographic
al Society of America 62 (1968), p. 448
pure melodramatic WITCH T.H. White to L.J. Potts, 8 Jan 1941, White, Letters, p. 122
The boy thought White, The Once and Future King, p. 353
I study as if Bennett, Untold Stories, p. 140
all in differing degrees Bennett, Poetry in Motion, p. 1
an elegy for Bennett, Writing Home, pp. xii, 259
All knowledge is precious Bennett, The History Boys, p. 5
loved best Carr, p. ix
the missed moment Ibid., p. 60
We can ask Ibid., p. 85
Had Morse known Dexter, Wench, p. 12
In the television adaptation ITV, 15 Nov 2000
collected everything HSJ 30 (2004), p. 8
pressed between pages Dexter, Death Is Now, p. 89
He looked at me with eyes MP XLI; Dexter, The Way, p. 38
if you’d care to hear them The Archers (omnibus edition), BBC Radio 4, 11 Jan 2014
the words of ‘The Olive’ AP XXIII
all of Housman’s verse Interview with Rob Barnett on MusicWeb International, March 2012: www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Mar12/Williamson_interview.htm#ixzz3tdkvhd00
deeply personal journey Heggie, programme note for concert ‘Theater in Song: Music by Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon’ held at the Herz Theater, UC Berkeley, 29 April 2007
In the Dark Ages Booklet for CD A Shropshire Lad (Michael Raven, 1994)
a unique combination http://annemetteiversen.com/Poetry-of-Earth/poetry-of-earth.html
The moods of the poems Matt Perzinski to author, 4 May 2013
I was curious Peter Kurie to author, 8 Feb 2015
a group of dudes www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyeYgciO74&index=16&list=FLB68oL4POTlM6NqZsPHMYpQ
Our goal as a band www.sonicbids.com/band/housmansathletes/
Well, I think it http://motorcycleaupairboy.com/interviews/1998/radio.htm
As a teenager http://true-to-you.net/article_040120_01
Vulnerable and complex Morrissey, p. 93
A stern custodian Ibid., pp. 93, 95
If by chance http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_130719_01; www.morrissey-solo.com/content/1350
I thought his poems www.morrissey-solo.com/threads/1059-Morrissey-s-books
When I was growing up http://true-to-you.net/article_040120_01
quoted the last line www.morrissey-solo.com/entries/3508
Yonder see www.morrissey-solo.com/content/774 (page 2); LP XI
Whilst sitting www.morrissey-solo.com/archive/index.php/t-83338-p-4.html
I wish he’d write www.morrissey-solo.com/archive/index.php/t-134296.html
Incredibly poignant http://www.morrissey-solo.com/threads/65098 (page 3)
Rural Shropshire Bailey, p. 146
The purpose of art Ibid.
among the Edge’s Timperley, p. 21
There is one moment Ibid., pp. 126–7
gaiety and sadness Vale, p. 31
should be lodged Ibid., p. 108
pulled in a whopping ‘Auction Reports 2015’ on Modern Railwayana website: http://hst43029.moonfruit.com/home/4581422849
The winning bidder Shropshire Star, 3 Feb 2014
evocative of the county www.woodbrewery.co.uk
I suppose you have Douglas to Betty Sze, n.d. (1939), Douglas, p. 71
does not mean Auden, Forewords, pp. 331–2
that thrilling utterance TN&NP in ASLOP, p. 247
peculiar function Ibid., p. 235
notably independent Manchester Guardian Weekly, 9 June 1933, in CH, p. 235
We should all write Quoted Michael Henderson, ‘Those I have loved’, Spectator, 17 Dec 2011
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The Poems of A.E. Housman, ed. Archie Burnett (OUP, 1997)
The Letters of A.E. Housman, ed. Archie Burnett, 2 vols (OUP, 2007)
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, ed. Archie Burnett (Penguin, 2010)
Poems, selected by Alan Hollinghurst (Faber, 2001)
The Collected Poems, ed. John Carter (Jonathan Cape, 1939)
Collected Poems and Selected Prose, ed. Christopher Ricks (Penguin, 1988)
The Letters of A.E. Housman, ed. Henry Maas (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971)
Introductory Lecture (CUP, 1937)
Selected Poems of A.E. Housman (Armed Services edition, n.d.)
A Shropshire Lad, with Notes and a Bibliography, ed. Carl J. Weber (Colby College Library, 1946)
More Poems (Jonathan Cape, 1936)
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Books are listed in their first editions; where other editions have been used for the purposes of quotation, the publisher (if different) and date follow in square brackets.
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J.R. Ackerley, The Letters of J.R. Ackerley, ed. Neville Braybrooke (Duckworth, 1975)
A. St John Adcock, The Glory That Was Grub Street (Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1928)
Seymour Adelman, The Name and Nature of A.E. Housman (Bryn Mawr College Library, 1986)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (Fourth Estate, 2006)
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (Gollancz, 1963)
______ The Amis Anthology (Hutchinson, 1988)
______ The Amis Collection (Hutchinson, 1990)
______ Memoirs (Hutchinson, 1991)
______ The Letters of Kingsley Amis, ed. Zachary Leader (HarperCollins, 2000)
Ruth Artmonsky, Jack Beddington: The Footnote Man (Artmonsky Arts, 2006)
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W.H. Auden, Forewords and Afterwords (Faber, 1973)
______ W.H. Auden: Juvenilia, ed. Katherine Bucknell (Faber, 1994)
______ Auden Studies 3, ed. Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins (OUP, 1995)
______ W.H. Auden: Prose 1939–1948, ed. Edward Mendelson (Faber, 2002)
______ Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson (Random House, 2007)
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Simon Baatz, For the Thrill of It (Harper, 2008)
A.L. Bacharach (ed.), British Music of Our Time (Pelican, 1946)
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Stanley Baldwin, On England (Philip Allan, 1926, Popular edition, 1933)
______ This Torch of Freedom (Hodder and Stoughton, 1935)
Stephen Banfield, Sensibility and English Song (CUP, 1985)
Ernest Barker, National Character and the Factors in Its Formation (Methuen, 1927)
______ (ed.) The Character of England (Clarendon Press, 1947)
Michael Barlow, Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth (Toccata Press, 1997)
Michael Bartholomew, In Search of H.V. Morton (Methuen, 2006)
William Barton, When Heaven Fell (Grand Central Publishing, 1995)
John Bayley, Housman’s Poems (Clarendon Press, 1992)
Lorna C. Beckett, The Second I Saw You: The True Love Story of Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner (British Library, 2015)
Adrian Bell (ed.), The Open Air: An Anthology of English Country Life (Faber, 1939)
Alan Bennett, Forty Years On and Other Plays (Faber, 1985)
______ Poetry in Motion (Channel 4 Television, 1990)
______ Writing Home (Faber, 1994)
______ The History Boys (Faber, 2004)
______ Untold Stories (Faber, 20
05)
Roy Birch (ed.), A.E. Housman, Poet and Scholar, Westminster Abbey, September 1996 (The Housman Society, 1996)
______ A.E. Housman: A Select Bibliography (Housman Society, 2001; revised 2010)
Andrew Birkin, J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys (Constable, 1979)
Ronald Blythe (ed.), Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War (Viking, 1991)
Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill As I Knew Him (Eyre and Spottiswoode and Collins, 1965)
Jeremy Bourne, The Westerly Wanderer (The Housman Society, 1996)
______ Soldier, I Wish You Well (The Housman Society, 2001)
______ Housman and Heine: A Neglected Relationship (The Housman Society, 2011)
Francis Brett Young, The Happy Highway (Reynal and Hitchcock, 1940)
Jessica Brett Young, Francis Brett Young: A Biography (Heinemann, 1962)
Bromsgrove School, Alfred Edward Housman (Bromsgrove School, 1936)
Jocelyn Brooke, The Flower in Season (The Bodley Head, 1952)
______ The Dog at Clambercrown (The Bodley Head, 1955)
______ The Orchid Trilogy (Secker and Warburg, 1981)
Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1918)
______ The Prose of Rupert Brooke, ed. Christopher Hassall (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1956)
______ The Letters of Rupert Brooke, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (Faber, 1968)
______ Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905–1914, ed. Keith Hale (Yale, 1998)
Piers Browne, Elegy in Arcady (Ashford, 1989, revised edition, 1990)
Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals and Other Essays (Walter Scott, 1886)
Angus Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (Jonathan Cape, 1991)
David Cannadine, ‘Politics, Propaganda and Art: The Case of Two “Worcestershire Lads”’ in Midland History (1978)
John Carey, Pure Pleasure (Faber, 2000)
Edward Carpenter, Narcissus and Other Poems (Henry S. King and Co., 1873)
J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country (Harvester, 1980) [Penguin, 2000]
John Carter and John Sparrow, A.E. Housman: A Bibliography, second edition, revised by William White (St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1982)
Willa Cather, The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, ed. Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013)
Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 5 vols (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884–98)
Winston Churchill, The World Crisis 1911–1914 (Thornton Butterworth, 1923)
______ The World Crisis 1911–1918 (Thornton Butterworth, 1931)