Author:Alfred Edward Housman

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A. E. Housman
(1859–1936)

British poet and academic; brother of Laurence Housman and Clemence Annie Housman

A. E. Housman

Works[edit]

  • A Shropshire Lad (1896)
  • Last Poems (1922)
  • More Poems (1936)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2032
  • More Poems (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
  • Additional Poems (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
  • Notebook Fragments (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
  • The name and nature of poetry (Leslie Stephen Lecture, 1933)

Individual Poems[edit]

  • Fragment of a Greek Tragedy
  • The Land of Lost Content
  • The Oracles, The venture; an annual of art and literature. 1903
  • The Bear or The Empty Perambulator or The Pathos of Ignorance (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
  • Breathe, my lute, beneath my fingers (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
  • I knew a Cappadocian (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
  • O billows bounding far (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
  • White is the wold, and ghostly (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048

Essays[edit]

Works about Housman[edit]

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1936, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 87 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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