Лучшие книги Альфреда Эдварда Хаусмана

Крупнейший английский поэт А.Э.Хаусмен, известен в России с 1930-х годов, но никогда не издавался отдельной книгой. Настоящее издание, подготовленное интернет-сайтом «Век перевода», включает в себя около двух третей поэтического наследия Хаусмена; некоторые стихотворения приводятся в нескольких переводах. Завершают книгу пародия Хаусмена на античную драму в переводе М.Л.Гаспарова, а также ключевая для понимания творчества поэта-филолога лекция «Имя и природа поэзии».

Alfred Edward Housman’s A Shropshire Lad is the wonderful collection of poems that are so evocative of ‘the blue remembered hills’ of his youth. In this half-imaginery ‘land of lost content’ the recurring theme is one of the helplessness of man against an achingly beautiful countryside. It has inspired generations of readers, and has found its way into the canon of English folksong with settings by Butterworth, Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980) is associated with the group of artists known as Vorticists, active in London in the 1920s. The main body of her work consists of superb wood engravings for book illustration, as here. Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker. With an afterword by Dr David Butterfield, Editor of The Housman Society Journal

This volume constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman’s verse as it was established in 1939, three years after his death. In contains A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, the Additional Poems, and the three translations from A.W. Pollard’s anthology, Odes from the Greek Dramatists.

Evocative of ‘the blue remembered hills’ of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman’s A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman’s verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible effects of war, against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside.

Inspirational for generations of readers, A Shropshire Lad, with its sweeping themes of youth and love, has found its way into the canon of English folksong and has been set to music by composers George Butterworth, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad features the superb wood engravings of the Vorticist artist and illustrator Agnes Miller Parker, and is accompanied by an afterword by Dr David Butterfield, Editor of the Housman Society Journal.

One of the most admired poets of his day, A.E. Housman wrote poems that conjure a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss. Expressed in simple rhythms, they show a fine ear for the subtleties of meter and alliteration, and they touch on subjects ranging from religious doubt and doomed love to patriotic celebration of the soldier and intense nostalgia for the countryside. This volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime, A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922), along with many posthumous selections and three translations of extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes that display his mastery of classical literature.
This edition has been revised by Archie Burnett and includes updated notes on the text and indexes of first lines and titles. It is introduced by Nick Laird and includes an afterword by John Sparrow.
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...Если воспользоваться набоковским определением "A Shropshire lad": "книга о молодых мужчинах и смерти", то моей целью было написать на ее полях книжку о немолодом мужчине и жизни.
К сожалению, никакой надежды на то, что все потенциальные читатели знают и помнят стихи Хаусмана, нет. Поэтому в левой части каждого разворота помещен его текст, в правой - моя вариация.
Я очень надеюсь, что сама откровенная наглость этой затеи и простодушная беззащитность моих стихов убедят благожелательного читателя в том, что книга вдохновлена не постмодернистским нигилизмом и не манией величия, а любовью к замечательным стихам и уважением к их автору. Когда я уже дописывал это предуведомление, меня посетила страшная догадка: а вдруг я, как и многие другие современные поэты, и раньше, и всю жизнь только и делал, что писал на чужих полях, а сейчас взял да и раскрыл этот секрет Полишинеля? Есть все основания подозревать, что это именно так.

Lovers of Housman's poetry and admirers of his scholarship have long been aware, from the Introductory Lecture of 1982 and The Name and Nature of Poetry, 1933, that he was also a master of a highly individualized prose style; and others besides classical students have relished the pungency of the famous preface to his edition of Manilius. Here, in addition to these, is a selection of Housman's writings, both scholarly and general, gathered from periodicals and other out-of-the-way sources, which decisively confirms his reputation as a prose stylist. The prefaces, the adversaria, and the reviews, in particular, give even the layman an idea of the precision and the penetration of exact scholarship. Housman's comments and judgments on other men illuminate his own nature: withdrawn, austere, even crusty, yet gentle with the unassuming; ruthless in exposure of arrogance and pretension.

В сборник Андрея Корчевского. победителя поэтического конкурса "Пушкин в Британии"-2014, вошли переводы из американской и английской поэзии; среди авторов — Уильям Шекспир, Джон Донн, Эдит Ситвелл, Эмили Дикинсон, Альфред Хаусман, Дилан Томас. Помимо переводческих работ, книга также содержит стихотворения и песни А.Корчевского, раскрывающие своеобразное поэтическое дарование автора.

'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?'

The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War.

The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. In addition, Tim Kendall's introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about their progress from idealism to bitterness.

Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant; detractors have thought much of it mannered and glib. But Housman speaks with two voices: the smooth texts conceal a dark sub-text. This tormented and secretive man wrote poems alive with indirect self-disclosure.

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