To my dear parents
John Tiarks Ranke Graves and Mary Graves and to all members of the Society of St Johns College, Oxford this book is affectionately and respectfully dedicated
Possess, as I possessed a season,
The countries I resign,
Where over elmy plains the highway
Would mount the hills and shine,
And full of shade the pillared forest
Would murmur and be mine.
A. E. Housman, LastPoems, 40
I do not mind how many biographies of him are brought out, so that they are accurate and kindly.
Katharine E. Symons, sister to A. E. Housman from a letter to Cyril Clemens, 29 October 1936, now among the Housman collection in the Library of Columbia University, New York
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The author and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: a letter by Lord Stamfordham is reproduced by gracious permission of Her Majesty the Queen; Mrs Ernestine Carter for extracts from a letter by the late Mr John Carter; Oxford University Press for an extract from an unpublished letter by Robert Bridges and for extracts from Grant Richards, Housman 18971936; the Estate of A. E. Housman for extracts 1979 from his unpublished and published writings including those in The Letters of A. E. Housman, The Manuscript Poems of A. E. Housman, Percy Withers, A.E. Housman:ADividedLife; The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of A. E. Housman, and Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, and Holt Rinehart, New York, as publishers for extracts from A. E. Housman, CollectedPoems; Paul Roche for an extract from an unpublished translation of Sappho; Contemporary Books Inc., Chicago, for extracts from Maude Hawkins, A.E.Housman:ManbehindaMask (1958); Jonathan Cape Ltd for extracts from Percy Withers, ABuriedLife; Jonathan Cape Ltd and The Seven Pillars Trust for an extract from T. E. Lawrence, TheSevenPillarsofWisdom; Jonathan Cape Ltd and the executors of the R. W. Chambers Estate for extracts from R. W. Chambers MansUnconquerableMind; Jonathan Cape Ltd and the executors of the Laurence Housman Estate for extracts from unpublished letters by Laurence Housman, a quote from the preface by Laurence Housman to A. E. Housman, AShropshireLad, quoted from an article in Encounter, extracts from letters from Laurence Housman to Katharine Symons and short quotes from AModernAntaeus (all the unpublished material listed is 1979 Jonathan Cape Ltd); Jonathan Cape Ltd and the executors of the Laurence Housman Estate for extracts from Laurence Housman, TheUnexpectedYears, and from his MyBrotherA.E. Housman; Doubleday & Co., New York, for an extract from T. E. Lawrence, TheSevenPillarsofWisdom; The Bromsgrove Library and Jonathan Cape Ltd for extracts from the Laurence Housman Letters given by Gilbert Turner; Charles Scribners & Sons, New York, for extracts from Laurence Housman, MyBrotherA.E. Housman; Robert E. Symons and Granada Publishing Ltd for extracts from Henry Maas (ed.), TheLettersofA.E.Housman; Cambridge University Press for extracts from: A. S. F. Gow, A.E.Housman:ASketch, G. H. Hardy, BertrandRussellandTrinity, Sir Sydney Roberts, AdventureswithAuthors, A. E. Housman, TheConfinesofCriticism, J. Diggle and S. D. R. Goodyear (eds), TheClassicalPapersofA.E.Housman, A. E. Housman SelectedProse, ed. John Carter (including extracts for the introductory Lecture (1892) and The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933)); Professor Otto Skutsch for passages from his lecture on A. E. Housman (1959); A. P. Watt Ltd for lines from two poems by Rudyard Kipling and six lines from two poems by W. B. Yeats; Bell & Hyman Ltd for extracts from J. J. Thomson, RecollectionsandReflections (1936); Turner & Devereux of London for extracts from the HousmanSocietyJournal, vols 1 and 2; Robert E. Symons and The Tregara Press for extracts from Alan Bell (ed.), FifteenLetterstoWalterAshburner; J. D. S. Hedley and The Committee of the Society of Bromsgrove School for extracts from H. E. M. Icely, BromsgroveSchoolthroughFourCenturies and from the Bromsgrovian; Kathleen Tillotson for extracts from an article by Geoffrey Tillotson; Joseph W. Scott for extracts from the Catalogue of the Housman Centenary Exhibition, 1959; Saundra Taylor and The Lilly Library, Indiana University, for material from their Housman Collection; Mrs J. Percival and The Library, University College London, for extracts from a number of unpublished documents; A. Tattersall and University College London for a quotation from the Council Minutes, and for extracts from writings by Professor R. W. Chambers; Kenneth A. Lohf and Columbia University, New York, for extracts from unpublished letters by, and relating to, A. E. Housman in their possession; the President and Fellows of St Johns College, Oxford, for extracts from papers, books and records in their possession; the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, for unpublished documents in their possession (and Dr P. Gaskell for his friendly co-operation); the Trustees of Street Library, Somerset, for quotations from unpublished documents in their possession; Lloyds Bank Ltd for extracts from unpublished letters of Hugh Last; N. V. H. Symons for extracts from unpublished letters and other writings of Mrs Katharine Symons and for Plates 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 30; The Board of the British Library for extracts from the Diaries of A. E. Housman; C. A. Brodie for an unpublished extract from papers of T. H. Warren; M. Higham Esq. for unpublished extracts from documents and books in his possession; the Executors of A. S. F. Gow for extracts from his unpublished letters; Ethel Mannin for extracts from published and unpublished writings by Clemence Housman; Mrs C. Gleadowe for an extract from an unpublished letter written by her late husband, R. M. Y. Gleadowe; Col. M. C. P. Stevenson, OBE, MC, for an extract from an unpublished letter by R. Laffan; Major-General T. A. Richardson and Rooks, Ryder & Co. (Sols) for the beneficiaries of Professor A. W. Pollard decd and Mrs J. K. Roberts decd for extracts from unpublished material by Professor A. W. Pollard.
The author and publishers would also like to acknowledge the use of material from TheClevelandStreetScandal by H. Montgomery Hyde (W. H. Allen, 1976); OscarWilde by H. Montgomery Hyde (Eyre Methuen, 1976); A. E. Housman at Oxford, an article by A. S. F. Gow in the OxfordMagazine, 11 November 1937; an article by John Quinlan in the MusicalTimes (March 1959); AHistoryofWoodchester by Rev. W N. R. Black (Spring, 1972); ATravelleratForty by Theodore Dreiser (Grant Richards, 1914); Max by David Cecil (Constable, 1964); E. M.Forster:ThePersonalVoice by John Colmer (Routledge & Kegan Paul); ARoomwitha
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