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Housman Country

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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

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  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

 

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