by Peter Parker
Sylvia Townsend Warner, T.H. White: A Biography (Jonathan Cape/Chatto and Windus, 1967)
George L. Watson, A.E. Housman: A Divided Life (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957)
Arthur Waugh, Tradition and Change: Studies in Contemporary Literature (Chapman and Hall, 1919)
Denton Welch, The Denton Welch Journals, ed. Jocelyn Brooke (Hamish Hamilton, 1952)
______ Denton Welch: A Selection from his Published Works, ed. Jocelyn Brooke (Chapman and Hall, 1963)
______ The Journals of Denton Welch, ed. Michael De-la-Noy (Alison and Busby, 1984)
T.H. White, The Once and Future King (William Collins, 1958) [HarperCollins, 2013]
______ T.H. White: Letters to a Friend, ed. François Gallix (Alan Sutton, 1984)
Kevin Robert Whittingham, ‘A Shropshire Lad in British Music Since 1940: Decline and Renewal’ (University of South Africa, 2008)
Trevor Wild, Village England: A Social History of the Countryside (I.B. Tauris, 2004)
Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins, 1966)
______ The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (Fourth Estate, 2000)
Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (Chatto and Windus, 1973)
Percy Withers, A Buried Life (Jonathan Cape, 1940)
H.R. Woudhuysen (ed.), A.E.H. A.W.P.: A Classical Friendship (The Foundling Press and Bernard Quaritch, 2006)
Websites
The Housman Society: www.housman-society.co.uk
British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: landofllostcontent.blogspot.co.uk
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
The LiederNet Archive: www.lieder.net
Ludlow English Song Weekend: http://ludlowenglishsongweekend.com
MusicWeb International: www.musicweb-international.com
The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society: www.rvwsociety.com
INDEX
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Abdon, Shropshire
Abercrombie, Lascelles
Adcock, A. St John
Additional Poems (AEH, 1937); VII ‘He would not stay for me; and who can wonder?’; VIII ‘Now to her lap the incestuous earth’; XVIII ‘Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?’; XXI ‘New Year’s Eve’; XXII ‘R.S.L.’; XXIII ‘The Olive’
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Albany, Duke of (Prince Leopold)
Alexander, Mrs C.F.
Amis, Kingsley
Anglo-Saxon poetry
Apostles (Cambridge society)
Archer, William
Archers, The
Armstrong, Thomas
Arne, Thomas
Arnold, Matthew
Ashwell, Lena
Asquith family
Auden, John Ernest
Auden, W.H.
Augustan poets
Austin, Alfred
Austin, David
Bach, J.S.
Bailey, Brian J.
Baldwin, Stanley
Balfour, Arthur
Ballamy, Iain
Barber, Samuel
Baring-Gould, Rev. Sabine
Barker, Sir Ernest
Barrie, J.M.
Barrytone (band)
Batsford, B.T.
Bax, Arnold
BBC
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beddington, Jack
Beerbohm, Max
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Belloc, Hilaire
Bennett, Alan
Bennett, William Sterndale
Benson, A.C.
Benson, Frank
Berkeley, Lennox
Berkeley, Michael
Berryman, John
Betjeman, John
Binyon, Laurence
Black Eye (band)
Blake, James Villa
Blake, William
Bland, Hubert
Bliss, Arthur
Blunden, Edmund
Bode, J.E.
Booley, Joe
Booth, Charles
Border Ballads
Boswell, James
Bottomley, Horatio
Bowring, Edgar Alfred
Bracciolini, Poggio
Bredon Hill, Worcestershire
Brett Young, Francis
Brewer, Herbert
Bridges, Robert
British Museum
Britten, Benjamin
Britton, John
Broadwood, Lucy
Broadwood, Rev. John
Brontë family
Brooke, Jocelyn
Brooke, Rupert
Browning, Robert
Buildwas, Shropshire
Burgon, Geoffrey
Burke, Edmund
Burne-Jones, Edward
Burnett, Archie
Burns, Robert
Bussey, Martin
Butler, Samuel
Butterworth, George; killed on the Somme (5 August 1916); musical settings of AEH
Byron, Lord
Caer Caradoc
Calderon, George
Cambridge, University of
Cammaerts, Émile
Carey, John
Carpenter, Edward
Carr, J.L.
Carroll, Lewis
Carson, Jeffrey
Carter, John
Cather, Willa
Catullus
Causley, Charles
Chappell, William
Charles-Edwards, Rt Rev. Mervyn
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chenevix-Trench, Anthony
Child, Francis James
Childish, Wild Billy
Christianity; and homosexuality
Church Stretton
Churchill, Winston
Clare, John
Clee Hills, Shropshire
Clementi, Muzio
Clough-Ellis, Amabel
Clun, Shropshire
Clunbury, Shropshire
Clungunford, Shropshire
Clunton, Shropshire
Cobbett, William, Rural Rides
Coke, Edward
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collected Poems (AEH, 1939)
Collected Poems and Selected Prose (AEH, Penguin edition, 1988)
Connolly, Cyril
Constable, John
Cope, Wendy
Corn Laws
Corp, Ronald
county regiments
Coward, Noël
Cowper, William
Cradley, Herefordshire
Craiglockhart War Hospital
Daily Express
Dankworth, Jacqui
Dankworth, John
Darling, William
Darrow, Clarence
Davies, W.H.
de la Mare, Walter
Decadent literature
Delius, Frederick
Dent, E.J.
Dexter, Colin, Morse novels
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes
Dilke, Charles
Dors, Diana
Douglas, Keith
Douglas, Lord Alfred
Duke, John Woods
Dunsany, Lord
Dymock Poets
Edward VII, King
El Adl, Mohammed
Elgar, Edward; ‘Enigma’ Variations; Pomp and Circumstance Marches
Eliot, T.S.
Elizabeth II, Queen, Diamond Jubilee
Elizabethan pastoral poetry
Elwes, Gervase
Elwes, Joan
Engel, Carl
England, rural; idealised landscapes; poetry re-embraces; and recreational walking; and A Shropshire Lad; see also ‘Englishness’; music, English; Shropshire
England, John
England, urban
Englands Helicon (anthology, 1600)
English Folk Dance Society
English Folk-Song Society (EFSS)
‘Englishness’: and age of chivalry; and Arthurian legends; and Alan Bennett; and Betjeman; and ‘Britain’; Christian English gentleman; countryside as true locus of; current debates on; dry humour and teasing; and empire; ‘English Heritage Series’ (1929–36); and First World War; the gentleman amateur; ‘Merry England’ term; sadness and pessimism; and Second World War; sexual and emotional repression; and A Shropshire Lad; stiff upper lip; Stratford-upon-Avon as locus of; and Edward Thomas; Victorian consolidation of; see also England, rural; music, English
Ettrick, Henry Havelock
Evans, Edwin
Evelyn, John
Eyre, W.H.
Farnese Mercury
Farquhar, George
Farrar, Ernest
Fentiman, Anni
Fergusson, Maggie
Fernhill (band)
Fielding, Henry
Figsbury Rings, Wiltshire
films, Hollywood
Finzi, Gerald
First World War; AEH ‘foresees’ the Somme; and AEH poems; centenary commemorations; deaths of musicians; English music during; popularity of A Shropshire Lad; survivors’ irrecoverable world; Times ‘Broadsheets’; war memorials
Fitzgerald, Penelope
Ford, Ford Madox
Forster, E.M.
France, influence of upon 1890s literature
France, John
Fraser, Peter
Freston, H. Rex
Froissart
Frost, Robert
Froude, J.W.
Fussell, Paul
Games, Abram
Gardiner, H. Balfour
George V, King
Georgian Poets
Ghoul Industries (band)
Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
Gide, André
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gill, Eric
Gloucestershire
Golding, Louis
Golding, William
Goodhart-Rendel, H.S.
Goossens, Eugene
Gosse, Edmund
Gove, Michael
Gow, A.S.F.
Gowers, Patrick
Grainger, Percy
Graves, Richard Perceval
Graves, Robert
Gray, Thomas
Great Exhibition (1851)
Greene, Harry Plunket
Grenfell family
Grove, George
Guildhall School of Music
Guiney, Louise Imogen
Gurney, Ivor
Haber, Tom Burns
Haines, Jack
Hale, Robert, ‘County Books’ series
Hamilton, Janet
Hampstead Heath
Handel, George Frideric
Hardy, Thomas
Harrison, Julius
Harty, Hamilton
Harvey, F.W. (‘Will’)
Hassall, Christopher
Hattersley, Roy
Haweis, Rev. H.R.
Hawkins, Maude
Hawthorne, Nigel
Hazlitt, William
Heggie, Jake
Heine, Heinrich
Henley, W.E.
Henry Holt & Co.
Henry, Joan
Herbert, Muriel
Herrmann, Bernard
Hibberd, Dominic
Hill, Geoffrey
Hitchens, Peter
Holst, Gustav
Homer, Iliad
homosexuality; and Christianity; and Forster’s A Room with a View; and John Ireland; ‘shame’ as code word; Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir; and university life; Uranian poets; and Victorian ‘Hellenism’; Wilde’s trials (1895); and word ‘lad’
Horace, Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis
Hornby toy company
Horner family
Hough, Stephen
Housman, Alfred Edward (AEH): burial; Chair of Latin at UCL; childhood and education; as clerk in Patent Office; complaints over misprints and errors; death of (30 April 1936); depressions; diaries; disappearance of (1885); dry humour and teasing; fails finals at Oxford; as Fellow of Trinity College; frequent trips abroad; and gloominess and melancholy; grave of in Ludlow; health decline; influence on later poets; Leslie Stephen Lecture (‘The Name and Nature of Poetry’, 1933); in literary fiction; lives at 82 Talbot Road; lives at Byron Cottage, Highgate; lives in Northumberland Place, Bayswater; lives in Pinner; and long walks; nonsense poetry; passes Civil Service examination; physical appearance; on poetry; in popular culture; portraits/photographs of; refusal of honours; rejection of anthologies and poetry broadcasts; and repressed emotion; and royalties; scholarly publications; sense of humour; sex life; at St John’s College, Oxford; statue of in Bromsgrove; taste for risqué stories; The Times obituary of; titles taken from poems of; use of irony; view of piracy; and word ‘lad’; ‘Summer’ (adolescent poem)
Housman, Basil (brother)
Housman, Clemence (sister)
Housman, Edward (father)
Housman, Herbert (brother)
Housman, Laurence (brother); A.E.H. (memoir, 1937); childhood of; homosexuality of; and posthumous publications; and topographical anomalies
Housman, Lucy (stepmother)
Housman, Mary (cousin)
Housman, Robert (brother)
Housman, Sarah Jane (mother)
Housman Society
Housman’s Athletes (band)
Howells, Herbert
Hughes, Ted
Hughley, Shropshire
Hullah, John
Hurd, Julian, suicide of (1951)
Huysmans, J.-K.
Hyatt, Alfred H.
industrialisation and urbanisation
Ipgrave, Geoffrey
Ireland, John
Iversen, Anne Mette
Jackson, Adalbert
Jackson, Holbrook
Jackson, Moses; children of; death of (1923); ill health; joins Indian Civil Service (ICS); ‘responsible’ for AEH writing poetry
Jackson, Rosa
James, Clive
James, Henry
James, Hilary
Jefferies, Richard
Jekyll, Francis (‘Timmy’)
Jekyll, Gertrude
Joad, C.E.M.
Johnson, Graham
Johnson, Samuel
Jordan, Fred
Jowett, Benjamin
Karpeles, Maud
Keats, John
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd
Kennington, Eric
Ker, W.P.
Kerry, Gordon
khaki dye
Kinder Scout ‘mass trespass’ (1932)
King’s England, The
King’s Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
Kington, Herefordshire
Kipling, Rudyard
Knighton, Shropshire and Powys
Knox, Ronald
Kosovo, Republic of
Kurie, Peter
Laine, Cleo
Lake District
Lambert, Constant
Lambert, Frank
Langland, William, Piers Plowman
Langley, James
Larkin, Philip
Last Poems (AEH, 1922); ‘We’ll to the woods no more’ (epigraph); I ‘The West’; II ‘As I gird on for fighting’; III ‘Her strong enchantments failing’; IV ‘Oh hard is the bed they have made him’ (‘Illic Jacet’); IX ‘The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers’; XI ‘Yonder see the morning blink’; XII ‘The laws of God, the laws of man’; XIV ‘The Culprit’; XV ‘Eight O’Clock’; XVIII ‘The rain, it streams on stone and hillock’; XIX ‘In midnights of November’; XX ‘The night is freezing fast’, †; XXIV ‘Epithalamium’; XXVI ‘The half-moon westers low, my love’; XXX ‘Sinner’s Rue’; XXXI ‘Hell Gate’; XXXII ‘When I would muse in boyhood’; XXXVII ‘Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries’; XXXIX ‘When summer’s end is
nighing’; XL ‘Tell me not here, it needs not saying’; XLI ‘Fancy’s Knell’
Lawrence, D.H.
Lawrence, T.E.
Le Gallienne, Richard
Lear, Edward
Leavis, F.R.
Lemprière’s Classical Dictionary (1788)
Leopold and Loeb case
Les Fleurs du Mal (Band)
Lindsay, Vachel
Llewelyn Davies family
Long Mynd, the
Loos, Anita
Lovelock, Jack
Lowell, Robert
Lucas, E.V.
Ludlow, Shropshire
Lutyens, Edward
Lynn, Vera
Mackail, J.W.
Maclean, Henry Clarkson
MacNeice, Louis
Mais, S.P.B.
Maitland, J.A.F.
Malory, Sir Thomas
Malvern Hills
Manilius, Astronomica
Manson, Willie B.
Marlow, Norman
Marr, Johnny
Marsh, Edward
Marston, Philip Bourke
Martin, Houston
Masefield, John
Masood, Syed Ross
Maybrick, Michael (Stephen Adams)
Maycock, John
Mayhew, Henry
McInnes, J. Campbell
Mee, Arthur
Mells, Somerset
Mendelson, Edward
Mendelssohn, Felix
Meredith, H.O.
Metaphysical poets
military calling; and A Shropshire Lad; and social class; see also First World War
Miller, Arthur George
Mills, Joan
Milton, John
Mithridates, king of Pontus
Modernist period
Moeran, E.J.
Morcom, Christopher
More Poems (AEH, 1936); VI ‘I to my perils of cheat and charmer’; VIII ‘Give me a land of boughs in leaf’; X ‘The weeping Pleiads wester’; XI ‘The rainy Pleiads wester’; XII ‘I promise nothing: friends will part’; XVI ‘How clear, how lovely bright’; XXI ‘The world goes none the lamer’; XXII ‘Ho, everyone that thirsteth’; XXIX ‘From the wash the laundress sends’; XXX ‘Shake hands, we shall never be friends; give over’; XXXI ‘Because I liked you better’; XXXIV ‘Young is the blood that yonder’; XXXVI ‘Here dead we lie because we did not choose’; XL ‘Farewell to a name and number’; XLI ‘He looked at me with eyes I thought’; XLVIII ‘Parta Quies’
Morel, W.
Morris, R.O.
Morris, William
Morris dancing
Morrissey
Morton, H.V.
Muldoon, Paul
Müller, Wilhelm
Munro, Alice
Munro, H.H. (Saki)
Murray, F.E.
Murray, Gilbert
Murray’s Handbook for Shropshire and Cheshire (1879)
music, English: AEH as continuing influence; English Musical Renaissance; and First World War; and Gurney; and landscape; nineteenth-century; opera; Queen’s Hall concerts (1912–13); ‘Sumer is icumen in’; traditional folk song; see also entries for individual composers
music halls