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A Note on Sources

References to quoted material are listed by page number and in order, identified by a brief phrase. Published sources are referred to by the author’s surname, followed by an abbreviated title where necessary. Books and individuals who occur frequently are referred to using the following abbreviations:

AEH – A.E. Housman

GR – Grant Richards

KES – Katharine E. Symons

LH – Laurence Housman

MJJ – Moses Jackson

TCC – Trinity College, Cambridge

A.E.H. – Laurence Housman, A.E.H. (1937)

AP – Additional Poems

ASL – A Shropshire Lad

ASLOP – A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, ed. Archie Burnett (2010)

Bromsgrove – Alfred Edward Housman (Bromsgrove School, 1936)

CH – A.E. Housman: The Critical Heritage, ed. Philip Gardner (1992)

CP&SP – Collected Poems and Selected Prose, ed. Christopher Ricks (1988)

GRH – Grant Richards, Housman: 1897–1926 (1941)

HSJ – Housman Society Journal

Letters I and Letters II – the two volumes of The Letters of A.E. Housman (2007)

LP – Last Poems

MP – More Poems

Poems – The Poems of A.E. Housman, ed. Archie Burnett (1997)

Recollections – Katharine E. Symons et al., Alfred Edward Housman: Recollections (1937)

TN&NP – ‘The Name and Nature of Poetry’, 1933 lecture

Preface

not a complete biography GRH, p. xi

I. England in Your Pocket

epigraph Birch, Westminster Abbey, p. 29

sweetness of country life The Times, 27 March 1896, CH, p. 58

a very real poet Review of Reviews, Vol. 14, Aug 1896, p. 187

the one I most wanted Richards, Author Hunting, p. 92

Vanity, not avarice To GR, 22 June 1903, Letters I, p. 149

I only stipulate To GR, 22 July 1898, ibid., p. 109

perhaps the largest sum To GR, 24 July 1898, ibid., p. 109

a pocket edition To GR, 11 Dec 1899, ibid., p. 114

gave full weight GRH, p. 33

bound to say To GR, 27 July 1904, Letters I, p. 159; GRH, p. 33

It was not for its reputation Quoted GRH, p. 34

in every pocket Nichols, p. 29

the last thirty years To John Coghlan, 8 Feb 1934, Letters I, p. 405

The particular psychology To C.W. Orr, 23 Jan 1935, Foreman, From Parry, p. 182

No contemporary poet American Services edition of Selected Poems, back jacket

no book of poetry Quoted Weber, p. 124

Yardley could use See New Yorker, 7 Nov 1931, p. 29

I was born Letters II, pp. 327–8

considered inferior A.E.H., p. 211

of a lower standard Ibid.

rescued from periodicals Carter and Sparrow, p. 165

My chief object To Witter Bynner, 3 June 1903, Letters I, p. 147

I don’t know how Auden, Forewords, p. 332

the writer who had Orwell and Angus, pp. 552, 550, 551

stood for Ibid., pp. 553, 554

more healing than prose To KES, 5 Oct 1915, Letters I, pp. 346–7

Nothing is less poetical Quoted Letters I, p. 347

The blind To GR, 10 Jan 1923, ibid., p. 533

not to personal experience To M. Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 329

Pray who gave To GR, 29 June 1907, Letters I, p. 211

the pompous edition Letters II, p. 114

while the book was printing Letters I, p. 612

If he reminds us Fortnightly Review, 1 Aug 1898, CH, p. 77

cried kinship Chap-Book (Chicago), 1 Feb 1897, CH, p. 70

no Arcadia CH, p. 76

full of the charm Orwell and Angus, p. 551

Like a true Englishman Anon, Citizen (Philadelphia), 9 Nov 1897, CH, p. 74

A theme or note Barker, National, p. 229

Anglo-Saxon genius Ker, quoted ibid., p. 229

Best Is Yet to Come ‘The Best Is Yet to Come’ (1959) by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh

I followed England Preface, quoted Schwarz, p. 72

Amid the uncertainties Froude, p. 17

Alfred’s laws Quoted Schwarz, p. 72

Englishman proper Quoted Samuel, p. 58

high-days and holidays ‘Merry England’ in Rhys, p. 67

Indian summer The phrase is used by Girouard, p. 17

age of chivalry Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), quoted Girouard, p. 19

ideal of chivalry Norwood, p. 19

Poets of England Palgrave, Preface

deepened our sense C.H. Herford in Bulletin, Sept 1918, quoted Doyle, p. 27

mere chatter Quoted in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article on A.C. Bradley

radiantly legitimised Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Writing (1916), pp. 139–40, quoted Doyle, p. 21

Colonisation Quoted Doyle, p. 30

has been deeply affected Barker, Character, p. 3

Towns came late Ibid., pp. 3–4

I feel very sorry Question Time, BBC1, 14 June 2012

peculiarly ‘English’ poet Birch, Westminster Abbey, p. 16

Englishness of Housman’s poetry Ibid., p. 26

a great statement Ibid., p. 24

a piece of England Vickers to author, 18 Dec 2013

II. The Man and His Book

epigraph Letters II, p. 377

alderman Keats (Rollins), p. 88

There is death Coleridge, p. 184

in a very sad state Letters I, p. 76

with whom any Quoted Stallworthy, p. 469

Sodomites To GR, 9 Oct 28, Letters II, p. 93

Housman is one Plimpton, p. 299

self-loathing Maas, Spoken and Unspoken, p. 14

He always seemed Quoted R.P. Graves, p. 142

I read Gentlemen Mark Twain Quarterly, Winter 1936, p. 10

very pleasant Page, pp. 105–6

as he got easier Ibid., p. 107

only abominable Ibid., p. 104

a good raconteur The Times, 2 May 1936, p. 9

odd affectionateness Quoted Page, p. 152

damp your ardour To GR, 21 Feb 1898, Letters I, pp. 105–6

after the book To GR, 24 July 1898, ibid., p. 109

I should like To GR, 11 Dec 1898, ibid., p. 114

I enclose To GR, 27 July 1904, ibid., p. 159

unbecoming To Messrs Alexander Mooring, 17 Aug 1906, ibid., p. 198

how atrociously To GR, 17 Aug 1906, ibid., p. 199

atrocious production To GR, 27 June 1908, ibid., p. 223

usual blunders To GR, 28 Aug 1911, ibid., p. 273

more likely to remember See GRH, p. 223

flee the country with To GR, 12 Dec 1920, Letters I, p. 457

Naturally To GR, 20 Oct 1921, ibid., p. 474

As matters stand To GR, 1 Oct 1924, ibid., p. 573

exact To GR, 17 Dec 1926, ibid., p. 641

Dijon Title of Chapter XXVI of GRH

Even deflections A.E.H., p. 105

bains de vapeur See AEH to GR, 9 Oct 1928, Letters II, p. 93 and 22 May 1922, Letters I, p. 494

puts a stigma GRH, p. 297

There is no single Ibid.

a shy, proud A.E.H., p. 13

This is me Quoted ibid., p. 99

He was not a man Ibid., p. 13

We may seem CP&SP, p. 263

extracted from life A.E.H., p. 13

implicit in his poetry GRH, p. 395

Well, William Rothenstein 1900–1922, p. 39

an absconding cashier Quoted R.P. Graves, p. 116

grim and dry Rothenstein, 1900–1922, p. 39

had never met Mendelson, Later Auden, p. 440

more physical TN&NP in ASLOP, p. 254

when the trees GRH, p. 289

strangely moved Encounter, October 1967, p. 39

Only those who Ibid.

The English poet Barker, Character, p. 304

It ought to be To Withers, 28 Dec 1928, Letters II, p. 102

the best portrait MP, p. 10

very unlike To Alice Rothenstein, 16 Jan 1927, Letters II, p. 5

oblige the artist To KES, 18 March 1934, Letters II, p. 409

an undertaker’s mute … maiden aunts Middleton: quoted Watson, p. 190; Benson: quoted Peter Green, New Republic, 13 Feb 2008

aged 35 A.E.H., plate facing p. 84

early manhood To Percy Withers, 24 Nov 1934, Letters II, p. 450

the year when To GR, 28 Sept 1920, Letters I, p. 452

all clever boys LH, Unexpected, p. 88

fell into my hands To Maurice Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 328

dark, twisted LH, Unexpected, p. 23

Was there ever Ibid., pp. 19–20

I was the sun A.E.H., pp. 22–3

a science which CP&SP, p. 260

roused within him Bromsgrove, p. 10

Country influences Ibid., p. 10

very pretty streams Ibid., p. 12

Many years later A.E.H., p. 29

there used to be To Alice Rothenstein, 16 Jan 1927, Letters II, p. 5

Summer! Poems, p. 203

Yesterday I went To Lucy Housman, 29 Jan 1895, Letters I, p. 8

has in it A.E.H., p. 27

Give me a land MP VIIIA

depth of feeling LH, Unexpected, p. 73

Now and then Ibid., p. 74

western horizon To M. Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 328

spent most To Lucy Housman, 9 Jan 1875, Letters I, p. 6

increasing restriction Bromsgrove, p. 24

Tristram Pollard in ibid., p. 30

generally recognized Ibid.

a perfect Philistine Quoted in Page, p. 41

lively Woudhuysen, p. 41

I believe that c. Nov/Dec 1893, Letters I, p. 75

15-mile walks MJJ to AEH, 23 Nov 1922, in HSJ 36 (2010), p. 45

simplicity Woudhuysen, p. 41

After we had Bromsgrove, pp. 30–1

absolutely safe first Ibid., p. 31

vowed that Quoted R.P. Graves, p. 49

came away Gow, p. 5

abstract thought Ibid., p. 7

There are few 11 Dec 1885, Letters I, p. 58

Deliberately ‘A.E. Housman’ in Auden, Collected Poems, p. 182

that voice Ricks, Critical Essays, p. 23

Propertius Gow, p. 7

emendation 11 Dec 1885, Letters I, p. 58

marriage of logic HSJ 1 (1974), p. 28

facile and frivolous Gow, p. 13

Housman’s chief love Ibid., p. 12

a society … intimate comradeship Quoted Dowling, pp. 85–6

Every pious parent Quoted Parker, p. 90

atheist at 21 To Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 328

went on believing To KES, 10 Nov 1935, ibid., p. 504

abandoned Christianity Ibid.

towards the end Ibid.

bewilderment Bromsgrove, p. 31

refused to consider Quoted R.P. Graves, p. 54

on whom he Quoted Letters I, pp. 261–2

During those years LH, Unexpected, p. 95

He returned home GRH, p. xv

blamable Ibid., p. xiv

When summer’s end LP XXXIX

On miry meads MP XXXIV

This failure John Sparrow, TLS, 16 Aug 1957

lay me down and die MP XXI

Diffugere Nives MP V

told him he LH to Gow, 15 June 1936, TCC, Add MS a. 71–126

did not much love To A.F. Scholfield, 16 June 1936, TCC, Add MS a. 71–188

most familiar friends F.W. Hodges to Gow, n.d., quoted Page, p. 51

a photograph of Jackson Reproduced in Watson, facing page 88

a Thames oarsman Page, p. 51

When he goes AEH to Lucy Housman, 29 March 1885, Letters I, pp. 55–6

a most delightful To Gow, n.d. TCC, Add MS a. 71–191

Though he would A.E.H., p. 60

an irregular life R.P. Graves, p. 64

Whether the worst Encounter, Oct 1967, p. 35

met daily Ibid.

three poems MP XXX, XXI; AP VII

The Mills and Boon Birch, Bibliography, p. 3

I still think Encounter, Oct 1967, p. 41

He looked at me MP XLI

Turn East Poems, p. 139

I doubt whether Encounter, Oct 1967, p. 41

that straight look MP XLII

wishful thinking Naiditch, Problems, p. 140

My fate Propertius, p. 16

Housman would not GRH, p. 449

Most of the pages The diaries are now in the British Library (Add MS 45861), but have been transcribed, with varying degrees of accuracy, by LH in Encounter (October 1967) and P.D. Eaton in HSJ 8 (1982), pp. 8–12

After leaving Karachi This account of MJJ’s life and career owes much to P.G. Naiditch’s ‘Notes on the Life of M.J. Jackson’, HSJ 12 (1986), pp. 93–114, collected in Naiditch, Problems, pp. 132–44

held his character 6 Feb 1911, quoted HSJ 36 (2010), p. 40

I do not want AEH to MJJ, 12 June 1911, in ibid., p. 41

cramped Andrew Jackson, ‘A Pivotal Friendship’, HSJ 36 (2010), p. 41

grown up To MJJ, 24 Aug 1918, quoted Jackson, p. 171

largely responsible AEH to MJJ, 4 Jan 1923, in HSJ 36, p. 46

I wrote verse 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 328

in his twentieth year A.E.H., p. 114

it smacked Ibid.

That thing MJJ to AEH, 23 Nov 1922, in HSJ 36 (2010), p. 43

I never was AEH to MJJ, 4 Jan 1923, in ibid., p. 46

I am going on MJJ to AEH, 10 Dec 1922, in ibid., p. 44

As I cannot AEH to MJJ, 4 Jan 1923, in ibid., p. 46

Epithalamium LP XXIV

Propertius in Ricks, Critical Essays, p. 22

the voice of Ibid., p. 23

dactylic hexameters I owe this point to A.E. Stallings in the notes to his translation of the poem published in Poetry in March 2012: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poemcomment/243608

the love of comrades Cf dedicatory poem in CP&SP, p. 253–5 and AP V

He said that Quoted Naiditch, Problems, p. 142

I did not begin Letters II, p. 329

I promise nothing MP XII

Literature as Compensation Forster, Commonplace Book, p. 47

continuous excitement Prefatory note to Last Poems

came to him GRH, p. 436

thirteen times TN&NP in ASLOP, p. 256

easy reading Athenaeum, 8 Oct 1898, quoted GRH, p. 27

Housman is perhaps New Statesman, 1 Jan 1938, p. 19

During the last To the Council of UCL, 19 April 1892, Letters I, p. 72

picked him out Quoted R.P. Graves, p. 79

Having drunk TN&NP in ASLOP, pp. 255–6

The leader of 20 May 1933, Letters II, p. 347

Poetry is not TN&NP in ASLOP, p. 248

opinions and beliefs Ibid., p. 247

Nymphs and shepherds Ibid., p. 254

Experience has taught me Ibid.

only describe Ibid., pp. 254–5. AEH is slightly misquoting a letter Keats wrote to Charles Brown, dated 1 Nov 1820: see Keats (Colvin), p. 374

one passion Quoted Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Frances Brawne

seldom written TN&NP in ASLOP, p. 255

rather out of health Quoted Page, p. 78

most prolific To Maurice Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 329

Punctuality Bromsgrove, p. 23

had from the first Ibid., p. 30

starry sky Ibid., p. 24

That his daily Gow, p. 51

To burn always Pater, pp. 210–11

I am always ‘Preface: Being a word on behalf of Patchouli’, in Symons, Silhouettes, p. xv

no very salutary Ibid., p. xiv

the High Priest National Observer, 6 April 1895, quoted Hyde, p. 156

Here is a writer CH, p. 65

pleasant Ibid., p. 67

Mr Housman has Ibid., p. 69

The little volume Ibid., pp. 59–60

the best review To Houston Martin, 22 March 1936, Letters II, p. 528

people who had Rothenstein, 1872–1900, p. 281

Its narrow measure Epigraph to More Poems

a biography Review of Reviews, Vol. 14, August 1896, p. 187

a persona Leggett, Housman’s Land, p. 124

progressively tragic Ibid., p. 107

Very little Letters II, p. 329

The ‘Enigma’ Quoted Rushton, p. 65

It is evident Idler ix, June 1896, p. 727

Only the archangel To LH, 16 Feb 1929, Letters II, p. 111

Some of the gentlemen Musical Times, 1 Dec 1930, p. 1094

an imaginary figure To Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 329

an imaginary character Undated draft of letter to Pollet, ibid., p. 326

wanting in the note CH, p. 61

The Funereal Muse Ibid., pp. 88, 90

moves our compassion Ibid., p. 74

Mr Housman writes Ibid., p. 76

He saved others Matthew 17:42; Mark 15:31

Shakespeare’s songs To M. Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 329

I suppose that To Witter Bynner, 3 June 1903, Letters I, p. 147

merely a necessary Marlow, Preface

a nursing home See Letters I, p. 554; Letters II, p. 504

The other day To Witter Bynner, 28 Feb 1910, Letters I, p. 248

Echoes of Gray See Burnett, Poems, pp. 327, 348

How jocund Thomas Gray, ‘Elegy written in a Country Churchyard’, line 27

The sigh that heaves LP XXVII

On acres LP XL

Now to her lap MP VIII

His favourite Bromsgrove, p. 30

For Hardy To Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 330

Hardy has surely Quoted in HSJ 8 (1982), p. 32

To tell the truth Quoted ibid., p. 33

Echoes of this Cf Arnold’s poem ‘The Buried Life’, lines 9–11

Homespun collars MP XXIX

Deutsche Treue See Marlow, p. 96

lyrical achievement TN&NP in ASLOP, p. 250

In an extraordinary Norman Gale, Academy, 11 July 1896, in CH, p. 69

To my knowledge Lynn Gardner, ‘Stuff & Nonsense’ blog, 3 April 2012: www.lynngardner.name/2012_04_01_archive.html

My dad Comment from JaneGS, ibid.

You may read it William Archer, Fortnightly Review, 1 Aug 1898, in CH, p. 76

the removal KES to GR, 7 March 1939, quoted R.P. Graves, p. 102

it could not GRH, p. 313

As Sarpedon says CP&SP, pp. 262–3

contemplated suicide St James’s Gazette, 10 August 1896, p. 12

a service weapon Ibid.

lying on the floor Evening News, 10 August 1895, p. 3

had carefully destroyed J.M. Nosworthy, ‘A.E. Housman and the Woolwich Cadet’, Notes and Queries, New Series 17, September 1970, p. 351

I wish it to be Reproduced in St James’s Gazette, 10 August 1896, p. 12

whoso shall offend Matthew 18:6

Wherefore if thy Matthew 18:8

Lock your heart Haber, Making, p. 249

there may yet A.E.H., pp. 104–5

The queen of air To Geoffrey Wethered, 13 Sept 1933, Letters II, p. 377

believed the poem Marlow, p. 101

Ho, everyone that MP XXII

a transitional period LH to Gow, 26 May 1936, TCC, Add MS a. 71–139

though somewhat lacking A.E.H., p. 105

what they say Dickinson to AEH, 22 Nov 1922, quoted Page, p. 3

The chestnut casts LP IX

few young men To Witter Bynner, 3 June 1903, Letters I, p. 147

It always pleases LH to Geoffrey Wethered, 29 Dec 1937, in HSJ 4 (1978), p. 7

great and real To Percy Withers, 24 Nov 1934, Letters II, p. 450

The thoughts of others MP VI

The world goes MP XXI

Sinner’s Rue LP XXX

filthiest book AEH to LH, 25 Feb 1929, Letters II, p. 112

intellectually frivolous TN&NP in ASLOP, p. 236

dream-fed beauty Carpenter, p. 4

Like fragrant ashes Reade, p. 228

But I loved Wilde, Complete Works, p. 864

Do the British Fussell, Great War, p. 272

I have lately Wilde to LH, 9 Aug 1897, Wilde, Complete Letters, p. 923

above Wilde’s average To Seymour Adelman, 21 June 1928, Letters II, p. 78

I’ve made two Forster, Journals, Vol. 1, p. 130

A copy with Forster, Creator, p. 126

not yet looking Ibid.

I had a rush Ibid.

My obscure admiration Ibid.

ventured to hazard Ibid.

When I read Forster to AEH, 22 Feb 1923, Forster, Letters, Vol. 2, p. 33

perhaps this letter To Forster, 25 Feb 1923, Letters I, p. 537

literary criticism To J.J. Thomson, 22 Feb 1925, ibid., p. 585

Housman came to Forster, Commonplace, p. 22

Neither memory Forster, Aspects, p. 36

unrespectable company Forster, Creator, p. 127

ventured to climb Ibid.

somewhat warmly Forster to AEH, 28 March 1928, Forster, Letters, Vol. 2, p. 85

I don’t know whether Ibid.

I did not conceal Forster, Creator, pp. 127–8

half-educated public Forster, Eternal, p. 71

forcing the pace Forster, Creator, p. 128

I value the good 13 Sept 1933, Letters II, p. 377

but he liked LH to Geoffrey Wethered, 29 Dec 1937, in HSJ 4 (1978), p. 7

Mortified Forster, Creator, p. 128

Good-night, my lad LP XVIII

It seems to me Forster to Florence Barger, 18 July 1917, Forster, Letters, Vol. 1, p. 263

such a triumph Forster to Florence Barger, 25 August 1917, ibid., pp. 268–9

my gondolier To Lucy Housman, 15 Oct 1900, Letters I, p. 129

rushed off Withers, in GRH, p. 395

I cannot offer To GR, 18 May 1932, Letters II, p. 293

a nice young man To KES, 18 Aug 1933, ibid., p. 371

I do know something To GR, 22 May 1922, Letters I, p. 494

This was offered Forster, Creator, p. 127

any way preferable To GR, 9 Oct 1928, Letters II, p. 93

an anal passive New Yorker, 19 Feb 1972, in Auden, Forewords, p. 327

Ho, everyone MP XXII

Stolen waters Proverbs 9:17

Perhaps he had Forster, Prince’s, p. 122

tasted some R.P. Graves, p. 151

His powers of GRH, p. 446

He was capable Ibid., p. 448

ashamed of Ibid., pp. 448–9

The emotions GRH, p. 395

go forth Forster, Abinger, pp. 4–5

deeply or not Ibid., pp. 5–6

It is a strong Quoted Turner, p. xv

The intensity Withers, pp. 129–30

We can’t get Forster, Abinger, p. 7

The answer must Barker, Character, pp. 304–5; the lines of poetry are from Wordsworth’s ‘A Complaint’ (1806)

implicit in GRH, p. 395

a beautiful ruin Reade, p. 49

they tell more KES to Gow, 24 Sept 1937, TCC, Add MS a. 7132

would never talk Barker, Character, p. 306

his most intimate friend Page, p. 51

I am as delighted Letter and envelope reproduced in facsimile in Adelman, pp. 30–1

Temp. 80 HSJ 8 (1982), pp. 10–11

carries a promise De Cleene and Lejeune, Vol. 2, pp. 174, 175

He would not stay AP VII

The weeping Pleiads MP X

The cheerful To MJJ, 19 Oct 1922, Letters I, pp. 516–18

extraordinary exhibition MJJ to AEH, 21 Nov 1922, in HSJ 36 (2010), p. 45; for Larry, see David McKie, ‘Jacksoniana’, HSJ 37 (2011), pp. 139–40

a fellow who thinks To MJJ, 4 Jan 1924, in HSJ 36 (2010), p. 46

Now I can die 17 Jan 1923, Letters II, pp. 533–4

owing to the cost GRH, p. 160

The working classes To GR, 6 June 1918, Letters I, p. 389

to make as certain GRH, p. 200

Oh, Alfred Punch, 25 October 1922, reproduced in ibid., p. 203

a continuation The Times, 17 October 1922, p. 13

extra numbers CH, p. 125

TLS Ibid., p. 112; Gosse, Sunday Times, 22 Oct 1922, ibid., p. 116

Spectator Ibid., p. 128; Bookman, ibid., p. 130

Dodd Ibid., p. 135

that rare being Ibid., p. 126

a large number Weber, p. 84

examined twenty-five Ibid., p. 105

huge and important circulation Quoted ibid., p. 120

knew by heart GRH, p. 55

Housman came as Quoted Weber, p. 123

I have seldom Quoted ibid., p. 124

I had a visit To Basil Housman, 29 Dec 1927, Letters II, p. 48

I remember http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/darrowclosing.html

I care not Ibid.

my poems are misquoted To Basil Housman, 29 Dec 1927, Letters II, p. 48

guttering low http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/darrowclosing.html

I should have written CP&SP, p. 448

The printers have Ibid.

In the course of 22 Dec 1932, Letters II, p. 320

I suppose 15 June 1933, ibid., p. 354

now behaving To Percy Withers, 7 June 1933, ibid., p. 352

My real trouble Ibid.

In previous visitations To Percy Withers, 10 Aug 1933, ibid., p. 369

violently painful To GR, 28 Sept 1933, ibid., p. 380

honeymoon mixture To Percy Withers, 10 Nov 1933, ibid., p. 386

all his life A.E.H., p. 118

The doctor does not 9 June 1935, Letters II, p. 476

The continuation 27 July 1935, ibid., p. 486

Do not expect To KES, 28 Aug 1935, ibid., pp. 490–1

breathlessness To KES, 24 Oct 1935, ibid., p. 500

with a bathroom To Denis Symons, 11 Dec 1935, ibid., p. 508

but I wake up Ibid.

The other night To KES, 27 Dec 1935, ibid., p. 513

but with no strength To GR, 20 Jan 1936, ibid., p. 517

I have no idea To Houston Martin, 22 March 1936, ibid., p. 527

terribly ill Quoted Letters II, p. 533

Ugh! To KES, 25 April 1936, ibid., p. 533

defying it Recollections, pp. 81–2

III. English Landscape

epigraph Forster, Howards, p. 250

a land of boughs MP VIIIa

I know Ludlow To M. Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 328

neatly tended graves Recollections, p. 48

to gain local colour Withers, p. 67

I ascertained To LH, 5 Oct 1896, Letters I, p. 90

Shropshire no longer CH, p. 75

In [Housman] Peele, p. 95

Wenlock … Buildwas Haber, Making, pp. 197, 151

Of the beauties Nightingale, p. 1

not offer any Murray’s Handbook, p. 13

reputation for Ibid.

treatment of neurasthenia www.malvernwaters.co.uk

In midnights LP XIX

Nature meant To Gundred Savory, 15 April 1931, Letters II, p. 242

the southern half To Houston Martin, 14 April 1934, ibid., p. 416

The greater part Murray’s Handbook, p. 29

smooth green miles LP XLI

traditional … popular doggerel To Houston Martin, 14 April 1934, Letters II, p. 416; Murray’s Handbook, p. 33

virtually enshrined Murray’s Handbook, p. 51

Dead Man’s Fair … Hell Gate Ibid., pp. 48, 13

There is so much Ibid., p. v

is conspicuous Ibid., pp. 47–8

Shropshire was To Houston Martin, 14 April 1934, Letters II, p. 416

was to reach Recollections, pp. 12–13

How clear MP XVI

The past is Hartley, p. 9

If a tuft Southgate, p. 19

One guessed Forster, Howards, p. 109

the tide of time James, pp. 251–2

For some years Masefield, Grace, p. 1

Then hey Masefield, Poems, p. 59

I had a very great [footnote] Mark Twain Quarterly, Winter 1936, p. 7

Never was there CH, p. 76

may create some To GR, 22 July 1898, Letters I, p. 109

Tell me not LP XL

How compare Quoted Rothenstein, 1900–1922, p. 343

temperamental sunlessness Larkin, Required, p. 143

every man his Quoted Hewitt, p. 209

I accompanied him Quoted Hazlitt, p. 8

I observed that Ibid., p. 9

I can enjoy Ibid., p. 141

truly poisonous Seamus Perry, ‘Coleridge’s Scotland’, Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 17, Summer 2001, pp. 61–2

Give me Hazlitt, pp. 141–2

four massive Hewitt, p. 163

forty days’ wages Ibid., p. 166

With limbs all Davies, The Soul’s Destroyer, pp. x–xi

I would rather Davies, Autobiography, p. 148

enjoyed, without perceiving Fitzgerald, Knox, p. 70

while traversing Palgrave, p. 3

Poetry gives Ibid., p. 8

a small octavo Quoted Alysoun Sanders, ‘150 Anniversary of The Golden Treasury’, Connected Issue 3 (Nov 2011)

Bast recommends Forster, Howards, p. 111

aims at nothing ‘Argument’ in Lucas

speechless To GR, 2 July 1907, Letters I, p. 212

This little selection ‘Editor’s Note’ in Hyatt

she flies Ibid., p. 3

Let us get Thomas, Childhood, p. 134

A walk in Housman Country www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2009/01/30/housman_feature.shtml

it reposes To Denis Symons, 25 Feb 1932, Letters II, p. 281

did not apprehend To LH, 5 Oct 1896, Letters I, p. 90

You might as well Quoted John Betjeman, HSJ 7 (1981), p. 16

but he indicates CH, p. 117

with a plea Tallents, p. 149

The Shropshire Lad had Ibid., p. 152

some six years ago Cather, p. 73

As soon as I Ibid., p. 62

in green pastures Ibid., p. 63

to all the places Ibid., p. 73 [I have corrected the spelling of place-names since this letter was published from a transcript and contains such obvious misreadings as ‘Ouy’ for Ony. In other letters, Cather’s spelling of Shrewsbury, for example (rendered here three times as ‘Shrewesbury’), is correct.]

rhyme with morn Ibid., p. 62–3

I’ll not quit Shropshire Ibid., p. 64

You must not carry Ibid., p. 63

Somehow it makes Ibid., pp. 62–3

an awful suburb Ibid., p. 73

safe and impersonal channels Ibid., p. 673

besieged by demands Ibid., p. 526

Several rather mushy Ibid., p. 673

charged with emotion Quoted Moffatt, p. 72

Unspoilt and alive Forster, Journals, Vol. 1, p. 150

sitting in the Forster, Creator, p. 126

Wet walk Forster, Journals, Vol. 1, pp. 49, 50

Incurious at a window Forster, Creator, pp. 729–30

the wrong part Forster, Howards, p. 194

How lovely 20 Nov 1963, Forster, Letters, Vol. 2, p. 287

Day and night Forster, Howards, p. 233

the graver sides Ibid., p. 250

favourite characters Forster, Creator, p. 126

How can he be Forster, Room, p. 31

I only know Ibid., p. 32

Everything is fate Ibid., p. 136

Never heard of it Ibid., pp. 132–3

What these unannotated See Summers, p. 101

I do not really To Edward Marsh, 1 Oct 1912, Letters I, p. 297

we are awake ‘The Georgian Renaissance’ in Rhythm II (March 1913), quoted Hollis, p. 10

to know Nature Hale, p. 16

the star poem Orwell and Angus, p. 552

the only proper To Geoffrey Fry, July [1907], R. Brooke, Letters, p. 90

with Lascelles Abercrombie Hassall, p. 250

Emmanuel, and R. Brooke, Letters, p. 277

But the years R. Brooke, Poems, p. 275

He was obsessed Waugh, pp. 25–6

on an autumn morning Quoted Hassall, p. 95

close cousins See ASL I, XXIII, XXXVII, LXI, L

valuable document Orwell and Angus, p. 552

the love she needed Hassall, p. 376

and at last Beckett, p. 43

lay nude Delaney, p. 53

The South Seas R. Brooke, Letters, p. 538

One starts Ibid., p. 539

Here in our quiet quoted Hart, p. 15

the most beautiful R. Brooke, Letters, p. 598

IV. English Music

epigraph ‘Mr Housman and the Composers’, Sunday Times, 29 Oct 1922, p. 7

wonderful air Barry Marsh, ‘Borderland Interlude: E.J. Moeran in Herefordshire’ (1994) at www.moeran.net

played at Lionel Hill, p. 50

He took us Ibid.

with whom any Quoted Stallworthy, p. 469

I am tempted Evening Standard on 17 June 1938, quoted GRH, p. 88

I wish they To P.G.L. Webb, 17 June 1896, Letters I, p. 88

all but about ‘Mr. Housman and the Composers’, Sunday Times, 29 Oct 1922, quoted William White in Music & Letters Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct 1943), p. 218

He cared little GRH, p. 394

Good critical taste Ibid., p. 448

I am sorry To Oliver Robinson, 23 Nov 1933, Letters II, p. 390

Considering the evidence Music & Letters, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan 1944), p. 60

had a pleasant Ibid., p. 61

My dear Sir To Arthur Somervell, 19 Sept 1904, private collection

I always give 18 Aug 1906, Letters I, p. 199

helped themselves GRH, p. 88

mattered nothing Withers, p. 69

Hell Gate LP XXXI

the orchestra To LH, 11 March 1936, Letters II, p. 526

I don’t allow 9 Feb 1927, ibid., p. 10

Never before Sunday Times, 29 Oct 1922, p. 7

It has more J.A. Westrup in Barker, Character, p. 399

The choral festivals Ibid., p. 404

the only cultured http://www.musicweb-international.com/dasland.htm#ixzz2PItm1Yht

His black hair Hardy, Vol. 1, p. 286

the English are not Haweis, pp. 483, 486

until music is Ibid., pp. 486, 485

We must not Ibid., pp. 553–4

the only English composer David Wright, ‘The South Kensington Music Schools and the Development of the British Conservatoire in the Late Nineteenth Century’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 130, No. 2 (2005), p. 242

To establish Ibid., p. 241

not remember Ibid., p. 238

when a principal Ibid., p. 251

more and better Hughes and Stradling, p. 32

pastures of Berkshire Music in England, pp. 11–12

Although the rural Introduction to the Study of National Music, p. 173

and circulated Hullah, Preface

English musicians Engel, pp. 99–100

primary object ‘A Folk-Song Function’, Musical Times, 1 March 1899, p. 168

where the jerry-builder Ibid.

after a long illness Karpeles, Cecil Sharp, p. 23

a strange procession Ibid., p. 25

good, strong Ibid., p. 26

dances, also Sharp, p. 173

English folk songs Ibid., p. 172

simple ditties Ibid., pp. 173–4

When Miss Carrie Ashwell, p. 27

the quickening Sharp, ‘The Country Dance’, Musical Times, 1 November 1915, p. 660

At one point Ashwell, pp. 178–9

The spiritual essence Hughes and Stradling, p. 180

not many of the men Karpeles, Cecil Sharp, p. 173

had been put Ibid., p. 32

I had that sense Quoted in booklet for CD Vaughan Williams Folksong Arrangements (EMI B0018OAP34, 2008)

Such a wealth Sharp, p. vii

Since the war 6 May 1916, quoted in Colls and Dodd

I am still at heart Quoted in Marshall, p. 19

biographical sketch ‘Edward Elgar’, Musical Times, Vol. 41, No. 692 (1 Oct 1900), pp. 641–8

descended from Ibid.

worthy to be Langland, p. xxviii

his home Quoted ibid., p. xxiv

draw their inspiration Elgar, p. 51

Don’t play it Quoted Marshall, p. 35

it’s only me Quoted ibid., pp. 32, 34

cursed Barry Marsh, ‘Borderland Interlude: E.J. Moeran in Herefordshire’ (1994) at www.moeran.net

It was in his Quoted Marshall, p. 49

truly lyrical qualities Edwin Evans, ‘English Song and “On Wenlock Edge”’, Musical Times, 1 June 1918, p. 147

Mr. Housman’s book Ernest Newman, ‘Concerning “A Shropshire Lad” and other matters’, Musical Times, 1 Sept 1918, p. 393

I have no objection To GR, 22 June 1903, Letters I, p. 149

amongst the best Musical Times, 1 March 1905, p. 188

would seem to Ibid.

The lads The usually reliable Stephen Banfield, notes for the CD Somervell: Maude & A Shropshire Lad (Hyperion Helios CDH55089, 2001)

broad and manly treatment ‘New Songs’, The Times, 8 Sept 1905, p. 2

a miniature tragedy The Times, 26 Jan 1909, quoted Banfield, pp. 234–5

remarkable for accurate The Times, 16 Nov 1909, p. 14

I wonder To GR, 20 Dec 1920, Letters I, p. 458

the composer has Quoted GRH, p. 221

Vaughan Williams’s setting Newman, Musical Times, 1 Sept 1918, p. 397

he could no more Smith, p. 91

a pastime for cranks Karpeles, Cecil Sharp, p. 173

It has often been Smith, pp. 90–1

the emphasis shifts Stephen Banfield, ‘A Shropshire Lad in the making: A Note on the composition of George Butterworth’s Songs’, The Music Review XLII (1981), p. 263

Only those who ‘Memoir by R.O.M.’ in Smith, p. 17

seems only to Johnson, p. 43

much too flippant Letter, 5 June 1905, quoted Murphy, p. 41

a quiet little heaven Morton, p. 257

I remember Ibid.

in the nature Butterworth’s programme note for the first London performance of the piece, quoted in Barlow, p. 99

the title has Butterworth to Herbert Thompson, 1 June 1913, in Foreman, From Parry, p. 55

be careful of Butterworth to Herbert Thompson, n.d., in ibid., p. 56

our one really Quoted Barlow, p. 106

Midsummer 1916 Dated MS: John Talbot, booklet for Chandos CD E.J. Moeran: Complete Solo Songs (2010), CHAN 10596 (2)

altered the way Quoted Banfield, p. 131

to breathe the Quoted Roy Palmer, booklet for British Music Society CD E.J. Moeran: Folksong Arrangements (2010), BMS438CD

A ‘national’ movement Newman, Musical Times, 1 Sept 1918, p. 394

These poems are Ibid.

it varies, of course Ibid.

musical sentiment Ibid.

There is in modern Ibid., p. 249

Purely English Quoted by Philip Lancaster in booklet for Linn Records CD of On Wenlock Edge sung by James Gilchrist (CKD 296, 2007)

Mr I.B. Gurney 16 May 1908, Letters I, p. 219

something of great importance M. Hurd, p. 24

Why does he bother? Quoted ibid., p. 28

For one thing Music and Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan 1938), p. 3

a view of Quoted M. Hurd, p. 45

Potentially he is Music and Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan 1938), p. 14

I have done 5 Quoted M. Hurd, p. 37

the special Glory Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 8

appeals and scorn Quoted M. Hurd, p. 53

I suppose you 8 April 1915, Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 17. The quotation is from Thomas Hood

the beauty of my Ibid., pp. 40, 43

When I can lie Letter to Matilda Chapman, Oct 1915, ibid., p. 53

When I am old To Marion Scott, Sept 1915, Gurney, War Letters, pp. 36–7

If you could write June 1916, Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 96

This autumnal morning Ibid., p. 144

I wait for 13 Feb 1917, ibid., p. 208

once in England Ibid., p. 289

Here I am Ibid., p. 145

He’s gone Gurney, Poems, p. 41

Western See, for example, Gurney, Collected Letters, pp. 192, 208

The beautiful Cotswold TLS, 22 Nov 1917, issue 827, p. 570

I find a store Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 46

You are right Ibid., p. 180

Another Gloucestershire Lad Quoted ibid., p. 381

Do you know To Marion Scott, 10 March 1917, ibid., pp. 223–4

once again I feel To M. Scott, 30 April 1917, Gurney, War Letters, p. 158

In my head To M. Scott, 11 June 1917, ibid., p. 168

Well, here comes To M. Scott, 24 Dec 1917, Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 385

English at the core To M. Scott, 11 Jan 1918, Gurney, War Letters, p. 238

had just rediscovered Music & Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan 1938)

had the same sickness To M. Scott, 29 Nov 1917, ibid., p. 234

This proved Quoted M. Hurd, p. 168

a pleasant country place Quoted Lewis Foreman, booklet for Chandos CD Ireland: A Downland Suite, etc (1995), CHAN 9376

In the verse J. Brooke, Orchid, p. 256

Ireland’s music Jocelyn Brooke, London Magazine, April 1965, in Foreman, Ireland, p. 350

a country of the mind J. Brooke, Dog, p. 100

an old French nursery rhyme To Charles Williams, 8 March 1930, Letters II, p. 175

Schubert might have approved Quoted Banfield, p. 302

Refuse. To GR, 6 Oct 1930, Letters II, 209

too much like Banfield, p. 306

indigestible Ibid., p. 304

If a composer Quoted ibid., p. 399

never found any Quoted ibid., p. 301

I must confess Eugene Goossens to C.W. Orr, 23 Jan 1935, Foreman, From Parry, p. 182

in October of that year The London performance is usually listed as the work’s (partial) premiere, but the Bradford performance is recorded in the Musical Times, 1 May 1927, p. 458.

After regaling us Quoted in Palmer, p. 16

combined these three Introduction to 1935 CBS broadcast from the Columbia Workshop, available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwqyrYNr_ts

since the Shropshire Lad Lambert, p. 205

There have been many Kildea, Britten on Music, p. 402

very much affected John France, ‘Julius Harrison & Bredon Hill’ (2007) on MusicWeb-International: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Jan07/Harrison.htm

on a perfect summer BBC broadcast in the North American Transmission, 29 Sept 1941, in Foreman, From Parry, p. 240

we mustn’t forget Ibid., pp. 240–1

It is a fact remarkable Transcript of BBC Overseas Service Transmission, 29 September 1941, ibid., p. 241

V. English Soldiers

epigraph, Browne, p. 84

could not think Quoted Bonham-Carter, p. 234

he was to quote them again Churchill, 1911–1914, p. 42

One feels Housman Encounter, May 1973, p. 68

marched off to Gallipoli Swift, p. 140

’Twas my good fortune Farquhar, p. 3

He made a poetical Hazlitt, p. 3

I think of all To Lucy Housman, 9 Jan 1875, Letters I, p. 7

The only one Bromsgrove, p. 26

The book that Alfred Bourne, Soldier, p. 67

I went into ‘Tommy’, Barrack-Room Ballads (First Series)

Probably you would Bourne, Soldier, p. 67

was particularly captivated To LH, 20 March 1896, Letters I, p. 85

I sit beside Silkin, p. 119

The Great War To M. Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 329

Hope lies to mortals MP VI

Too old to fight KES in Recollections, p. 34

Epitaph on an Army LP XXXVII

As I gird on LP II

Her strong enchantments LP III

Oh hard is the bed LP IV

Here dead we lie MP XXXVI

some verses that I wrote To KES, 5 Oct 1915, Letters I, p. 346

does in eight lines Darling, p. 216

the finest Quoted Lycett, p. 582

knew all the sceptical Connolly, pp. 233, 239

For over all life Mackail, pp. 64–5

Of course I have To M. Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 329

An English boy Quoted Birkin, p. 175

who are Nature’s Saki, p. 579

To have reached thirty Quoted Parker, p. 93

year in, year out Quoted Birkin, p. 262

You were able to Quoted Fletcher, p. 265

They carry back See Fletcher, plate 31

I implore you Knox, p. 154

the country Ibid., p. 114

It is the luckiest 24 Feb 1915, quoted ibid., p. 112

diminishes the sale To GR, 5 Dec 1916, Letters I, p. 371

We all had Interview recorded for the Imperial War Museum: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80009542

Like many of our generation Quoted HSJ 30 (2004), p. 140

favourite pocket-book Darling, pp. 215–16

Hopper or Cooper Ibid., p. 216

I first read Evan Pughe, quoted Weber, p. 121

on a visit to the front Adcock, p. 120

because so many soldiers To MJJ, 19 Oct 1922, Letters I, p. 517

The man smiled GRH, p. 155

had almost a hope To KES, 5 Oct 1915, Letters I, p. 346

It is not so curious Adcock, pp. 120–1

move to the sound Quoted Weber, p. 122

I always feel LH, War Letters, p. 68

England remains Sorley, Letters, p. 275

an account of Quoted Hollis, p. 171

This is an anthology Thomas, This England, p. iii

Literally, for this Quoted Hollis, p. 287

It seemed to me that The Nation, 7 November 1914, p. 171

All I can say Ibid., p. 170

I found myself observing Sassoon, Weald, pp. 275–8

normal, even ordinary man R. Brooke, Prose, p. 195

Something was growing Ibid., p. 199

there rose up Morton, pp. 1–2

his earliest memories Bartholomew, p. 2

Would it not be Morton, p. 2

I took the vow Ibid., pp. 2–3

The homesickness Blythe, p. 62

The noble expanse Turner, p. 132

I take it that England Thomas, Last Sheaf, pp. 102–3

Since the war Ibid., p. 109

I think England Ibid., p. 111

Here’s luck Harvey, p. 6

The poems are written Ibid., p. viii

How it brings back 15 August 1915, in Tapert, pp. 26–7. [I have corrected a misreading of ‘Penkridge’, which is reproduced by Tapert as ‘Penbridge’.]

I read Richard Jefferies To the Master of Marlborough, 25 June 1915, Sorley, Letters, p. 281

I wish I could 30 March 1917, Sassoon, Diaries 1915–1918, pp. 146–7

What is there LH, War Letters, p. 225

To the average man Rhys, p. v

The practical use ‘Editor’s Note’ in ibid., p. viii

chosen chiefly Ibid., pp. viii–ix

from cover to cover The Times, 30 Aug 1915, p. 7

symbolize the cause Ibid.

carry the message The Times, 3 Sept 1903, p. 9

not designed to Ibid.

Old magazines Hurst, pp. 59–60

yearly sales Figures quoted in R.P. Graves, p. 174

Siegfried Sassoon Moorcroft-Wilson, Sassoon, p. 555

purchased his copy from Harold Monro’s Hibberd, Wilfred Owen, pp. 212–13

the old road where Thomas, Collected Poems, p. 120

A Private Ibid., p. 50

as a language-maker Sorley, Letters, p. 49

I do not know much Ibid., p. 50

Thomas Hardy cannot Prewett, p. 13

A lad to life Ibid., p. 59

this was ‘all right’ Seymour-Smith, p. 432

distinct Housman echoes R. Graves, Fairies, pp. 14, 28, 5; Graves, Selected Poems, p. 32

Housman’s greatest contribution Fussell, Great War, pp. 282–3

His iron quatrains Encounter, May 1973, p. 68

Time was in summer Freston, p. 52

The Garden of Death Ibid., p. 77

The hills of Cheshire Hibberd, Owen the Poet, p. 2

bring me Shropshire To Colin Owen, 10 Aug 1914, Owen, Letters, p. 428; to Susan Owen, 16 May 1917, ibid., p. 462

Harold’s boots Harold Owen, p. 176. For the poem, see Owen, Poems (Stallworthy), p. 170

bluebells, it may be To Susan Owen, 21 February 1918, Owen, Letters, p. 535

god of Canongate Poems (Stallworthy), pp. 56, 86

dear, clever lads To Susan Owen, 2 December 1914 and 16 June 1915, Owen, Letters, pp. 300, 340

preciously preserved To Susan Owen, 18 Aug 1915, ibid., p. 356

Perseus was a sailor To Susan Owen, 10 April 1915, ibid., p. 334

pity ‘Preface’ to Owen, Poems (1920), p. vii

all half dead To Susan Owen, 6 or 8 April 1917 and 16 Jan 1917, Owen, Letters, pp. 450 and p. 428

stood by To Susan Owen, 12 Feb 1917, ibid., p. 434

the bleeding lad’s To Susan Owen, 13 Aug 1917, ibid., p. 483

the best lad To Susan Owen, 3 Dec 1917, ibid., p. 514

Shropshire lads whose To Susan Owen, 21 June 1918, ibid., p. 560

at least two lads To Susan Owen, 15 Sept 1918, ibid., p. 577

stout lad ‘The Parable of the Old Man and the Young’ and ‘The Dead-Beat’, Poems (Stallworthy), pp. 151, 121

like the Woolwich Cadet ‘S.I.W.’, ibid., p. 137

Beauty Ibid., p. 180

Which long to nuzzle ‘Arms and the Boy’, ibid., p. 131

Some cheered him home Ibid., p. 152

Strange to think 12 Sept 1924, Sassoon, Diaries 1923–1925, p. 197

Adventurous lads Sassoon, War Poems, p. 126

shell-holes dying slow Ibid., p. 83

head to head Ibid., p. 121

some wiped-out impossible Attack Ibid., p. 89

kind and gay Ibid., pp. 119, 143

Oh lad that I loved Ibid., p. 123

Here dead we lie MP XXXVI

An album of ‘My Grandfather’ in Morpurgo, p. 283

penetrated his cheekbone Ibid., p. 292

VI. The Rediscovery of England

epigraph Morton, p. vii

The sight of a number Rothenstein 1900–1922, pp. 298–9

Designed as a Memorial Exhibition catalogue, p. 238

my 60 feet of canvas Rothenstein 1900–1922, p. 310

This book is a debt Mais, Oh! To Be in England, p. 9

I am told that Ibid., p. 10

If any of these Ibid., p. 11

stood under Ibid., pp. 12–13

very magnificent To GR, 5 Feb 1927, Letters II, p. 9

seventeen haphazard excursions Mais, Unknown, p. vii

an expensive Ibid., p. viii

I had more letters Ibid., p. ix

Happiness is not Ibid., p. 177

I have a feeling Ibid., pp. 184–5

Shropshire names Ibid., p. 188

this generation has replaced Joad, p. 12

help all, especially Quoted Matless, p. 72

long before I owned HSJ 8 (1982), p. 1

The remarkable system Morton, p. vii

a strong desire ‘On Pilgrimage in England’, TLS, 28 March 1942

number of privately owned cars Figures from Wild, p. 120

I suppose many Morton, pp. 3–4

only religious moment Ibid., p. 3

For months I have Ibid., pp. 185–6

A Sunday hush Ibid., p. 279

I took up a handful Ibid., p. 280

There could have been Baldwin, On England, pp. 8–9

I see the hills Quoted Cannadine, pp. 105–6

most unclubbable Jones, p. 207

as the Chancellor said Baldwin, Torch, pp. 124–5

That is all we want Ibid., pp. 304–5, 306

And when I ask myself Baldwin, On England, pp. 5–6

there lies, deep down Baldwin, Torch, p. 120

reveals and expresses … This is the work Quotes from jacket of Baldwin, On England

At no time TLS, 28 March 1942

There has been nothing Quoted on The King’s England Press website: http://www.kingsengland.com/PBCPPlayer.asp?ID=773748

the largest essay Heathcote, p. 1

Leave your books Mais, Oh!, p. 11

Even today Quoted Cannadine, p. 108

I don’t believe Quoted Jessica Brett Young, p. 27

Ever since my childhood Quoted Cannadine, p. 109

the grimy tentacles Francis Brett Young, p. 50

had often wistfully Ibid., p. 193

Ah Shropshire Ibid., p. 4

Twenty-five years ago Ibid., p. 8

a landscape warm Ibid., p. 50

beyond which Ibid.

the green brooklands Ibid., p. 49

It was odd Ibid., p. 50

tarnished… jingle Ibid., pp. 54, 84, 91

All through this Ibid., p. 204

never bought a book Ibid., p. 140

had marked Ibid., p. 328

It was odd how Ibid., p. 317

dead and rotten MP XL

it is unthinkable Fussell, Wartime, p. 247

When he died Armed Services edition, pp. 127–8

was commissioned Percy, p. 25

When I was posted Birch, Westminster Abbey, p. 15

His family, his friends Peel, p. 57

Access to books The Salopian, June 1946, p. 231

It obviously spoke Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Woolwich, in Soul Music: A Shropshire Lad, BBC Radio 4, 11 November 2014

VII. Aftermaths

down in the most beautiful The account of his brother’s death is in D. Hurd, Memoirs, pp. 79–87

went on vibrating Ricks, Critical Essays, p. 23

His poems have entered Birch, Westminster Abbey, p. 29

my feeling is that Blunden to Sassoon, 30 Sept 1940, Sassoon, Letters, Vol. 2, p. 265

not the same thing Sassoon to Blunden, 20 Oct 1940, ibid., p. 266

the authentic procession Sassoon to Blunden, 21 Jan 1954, ibid., p. 57

I consider A.E. Housman Amis, Letters, p. 1106

Housman has left no MacNeice, Modern Poetry, p. 83

Housman is easy to Carey, p. 96

Housman by heart MacNeice, Letters, p. 591

Art for him Auden, Prose 1939–1948, p. 43

are all Housman’s Auden, Juvenilia, p. 13

made up of magical Auden, Prose 1939–1948, p. 155

‘A Shock’ Auden, Collected Poems, p. 866

ear and eye HSJ 7 (1981), p. 16

I think primarily Parkinson, ITV, date unknown

fellow townsman Haffenden, p. 79; Hill, Broken Hierarchies, p. 484

Before I knew anything Haffenden, p. 79

Morcom was Turing’s muse Quoted in Lyon and McDonald, p. 85

‘Cut Grass’ Larkin, Poems, p. 183

faces the worst Poet on Poet of the Week: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?showdoc=43

I have a great shrinking Larkin to Pym, 8 April 1963, in Larkin, Letters, p. 351

the poet of unhappiness Larkin, Required Writing, p. 264

In 1967 it was estimated Haber, A.E. Housman, p. 177

assume that his poems Quoted T.B. Haber, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 62 (1968), p. 448

pure melodramatic WITCH T.H. White to L.J. Potts, 8 Jan 1941, White, Letters, p. 122

The boy thought White, The Once and Future King, p. 353

I study as if Bennett, Untold Stories, p. 140

all in differing degrees Bennett, Poetry in Motion, p. 1

an elegy for Bennett, Writing Home, pp. xii, 259

All knowledge is precious Bennett, The History Boys, p. 5

loved best Carr, p. ix

the missed moment Ibid., p. 60

We can ask Ibid., p. 85

Had Morse known Dexter, Wench, p. 12

In the television adaptation ITV, 15 Nov 2000

collected everything HSJ 30 (2004), p. 8

pressed between pages Dexter, Death Is Now, p. 89

He looked at me with eyes MP XLI; Dexter, The Way, p. 38

if you’d care to hear them The Archers (omnibus edition), BBC Radio 4, 11 Jan 2014

the words of ‘The Olive’ AP XXIII

all of Housman’s verse Interview with Rob Barnett on MusicWeb International, March 2012: www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Mar12/Williamson_interview.htm#ixzz3tdkvhd00

deeply personal journey Heggie, programme note for concert ‘Theater in Song: Music by Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon’ held at the Herz Theater, UC Berkeley, 29 April 2007

In the Dark Ages Booklet for CD A Shropshire Lad (Michael Raven, 1994)

a unique combination http://annemetteiversen.com/Poetry-of-Earth/poetry-of-earth.html

The moods of the poems Matt Perzinski to author, 4 May 2013

I was curious Peter Kurie to author, 8 Feb 2015

a group of dudes www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyeYgciO74&index=16&list=FLB68oL4POTlM6NqZsPHMYpQ

Our goal as a band www.sonicbids.com/band/housmansathletes/

Well, I think it http://motorcycleaupairboy.com/interviews/1998/radio.htm

As a teenager http://true-to-you.net/article_040120_01

Vulnerable and complex Morrissey, p. 93

A stern custodian Ibid., pp. 93, 95

If by chance http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_130719_01; www.morrissey-solo.com/content/1350

I thought his poems www.morrissey-solo.com/threads/1059-Morrissey-s-books