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Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 - April 30, 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He was a scholar at Cambridge University and spent a year at Harvard as a visiting fellow. He also worked for several years as a litigator and arbitration lawyer in London and Warsaw. The author of the poetry collections To A Fault (Faber/Norton) and On Purpose (Faber/Norton), he has received several prestigious awards for both poetry and fiction, including the 2005 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Award. His first novel, Utterly Monkey (Fourth Estate/Harper Collins) won the Betty Trask Prize for best first novel and was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His second novel, Glover's Mistake, was published by 4th Estate in the spring of 2009.
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This is the definitive volume of Housman's poetry, containing all of them from 'A Shropshire Lad', 'Last Poems', and 'More Poems'. Slim volumes, all of them, but then with things like this it's quality, not quantity...
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Maybe a new edition is in the pipeline. In the meantime save a few quid by getting the far superior Wordsworth edition. Also highly recommended are Wordsworth's complete editions of Hardy and Kipling, two other major poets whose work they do full justice to, unlike the bigger publishing houses.
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