Questions tagged [a-e-housman]
Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936), English classical scholar and poet, best known for the poetry collection "A Shropshire Lad" (1896).
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Did Lucan make an elementary blunder about the zodiac in “Pharsalia” book 3?
In book 3 of Lucan’s Pharsalia, enthusiasm for the civil war between Caesar and Pompey inflamed the whole world, including:
Ethiopians from that southern land
Which lies without the circuit of the ...
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Which is right, “inmittens” or “inmites”, in Propertius’ “Elegies”?
In the introduction to his edition of Juvenal’s Satires, A. E. Housman wrote:
The task of editing the classics is continually attempted by scholars who have neither enough intellect nor enough ...
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"Wear the broom and climb the hedgerows" in Housman's "A Shropshire Lad"
Here’s poem XXXIX from A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad (1896):
’Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town
The golden broom should blow;
The hawthorn sprinkled up and down
Should charge the land ...
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Persona of the narrator in Housman's "Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree"
Here's the fifth stanza from the poem "Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree" by A. E. Housman, which revolves around a country lad with guilt-stricken state of mind after murdering his ...
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