Contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Epigraphs
4. List Of Plates
5. Acknowledgments
6. Introduction
7.  
8. Chapter 1 Background and Early Years
9. Chapter 2 Schooldays
10. Chapter 3 A Scholar at Oxford
11. Chapter 4 The Years of Poverty, 1881–92
12. Chapter 5 An Academic Life, 1892–1911
13. Chapter 6 A Literary Life (1)
14. Poems 1892–July 1894
15. Poems August–December 1894; the background to  the writing of A Shropshire Lad
16. Models and influences
17. 1895: composition; and 1896: publication of A Shropshire Lad
18. A literary life, 1896–1911
19. A poet of the Boer War
20. Chapter 7 Mainly Family, 1892–1929
21. Chapter 8 Travelling Abroad, 1897–1929
22. Chapter 9 Trinity College, Cambridge, 1911–29
23. Arrival and the pre-war years, 1911–14
24. The war years
25. An established figure
26. Mainly friendships
27. Chapter 10 A Classical Scholar
28. Chapter 11 A Literary Life (2)
29. The background to Last Poems: 1896–1902, and 1902–18
30. Last Poems
31. A literary connoisseur
32. A literary life
33. Chapter 12 Last Years
34.  
35. Appendix: Housman letters at Bromsgrove
36. Abbreviations
37. Bibliography
38. Index
39. Plates
40. Copyright
41.