Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
A. E. Housman
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Standard Name: Housman, A. E.
Used Form: Alfred Edward Housman
AEH
, who was also a classical scholar, editor, and critic, is best known for his poetry, mostly in ballad form. His first publication happened in 1896, and the last was posthumous. His characteristic subjects are personal loss, longing, and regret for lost youth and the past.
The title of this novel caused problems. James wanted to use this particular phrase, which occurred in four lines of verse she had copied from a journal article, but the source remained elusive. Valiant efforts...
Textual Production
Mary Webb
MW
wrote war poetry. The Lad Out There (whose title perhaps remembers Housman
) catches the tone of poems by women left behind and gives it a maternal flavour: So young he is, so dear...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sheenagh Pugh
Her first collection demonstrates her consuming interest in other people, an eclectic range of individuals from history and the present, who are mostly finding life bleak or difficult. It demonstrates an equally wide range of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Marghanita Laski
ML
defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source.
Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press, 1961.