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Housman Country

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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

  Books by A.E. Housman

  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)

  Secondary Sources

  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.

  Books

  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)

  Lena Ashwell, Modern Troubadours (Gyldenal, 1922)

  J.H. Auden, The Little Guides: Shropshire (Methuen, 1912; third edition, 1921)

  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)

  W.H. Auden and John Garrett (ed.), The Poet’s Tongue (G. Bell and Sons, 1935)

  Simon Baatz, For the Thrill of It (Harper, 2008)

  A.L. Bacharach (ed.), British Music of Our Time (Pelican, 1946)

  Brian J. Bailey, Portrait of Shropshire (Robert Hale, 1981)

  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)

 

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