The Letters of A. E. Housman, Two Volume Boxset

Housman, A. E.; Burnett, Archie (editor)

ISBN 10: 0198184964 / ISBN 13: 9780198184966

Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

Volumes 1 and 2 of the Letters of A. E. Housman in presentation slipcase. Small scuff mark (2cm) on edge of Volume 2's spine, otherwise near fine condition. Pages clean and bright, boards and bindings tidy, minimal shelf wear to presentation slipcase. Size: 8vo. N° de réf. du vendeur 85607

Synopsis :

The Letters of A. E. Housman is a scholarly edition of over 2200 letters. (The previous edition, edited by Henry Maas, contained just over 880.) The letters cover the whole range of Housman's daily activities, whether he writes as poet, Professor of Latin, son, brother, uncle, friend, or citizen. Thus they allow the fullest possible revelation of a man whose reserve was legendary. He emerges as a more amiable, more sociable, more generous, more painstaking, and more complex person than has previously been realized. In most cases the source of the text is a manuscript, and this has resulted in a text that is more accurate and more complete than any previously available. Accompanying the text are notes covering persons and places, poetry, classical scholarship, publishing history, and literary allusion and echo.

À propos de l'auteur: Archie Burnett was born in Scotland in 1950 and studied at the University of Edinburgh before completing his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1977, with a thesis on Milton's language. He was Junior Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford 1974-8 then Lecturer and eventually Professor in English at Oxford Brookes University 1979-2000. He is currently Co-director of the Editorial Institute and Professor of English at Boston University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Letters of A. E. Housman, Two Volume ...
Éditeur : Oxford University Press, Oxford
Date d'édition : 2007
Reliure : Hard
Etat : Near Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Slipcase