1、,-by A.E.Housman,A Shropshire lad II,程世兰英语1101201107010103,author,Loveliest of Trees,major works,Stylistic feature,Introduction of the Author,A.E. Housman (short for Alfred Edward Housman) was born on March 26th of 1859 in a family of a country solicitor （ 律师；法务官)as the eldest of seven children and
2、died on April 30th, 1936. He was an English classical poet, scholar and one of the foremost classicists, best known for his cycle of poems- A Shropshire Lad.He was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later at Cambridge on the strength and quality of his work.,Housman found
3、his true destiny in classical studies and treated poetry as a secondary activity. He never spoke about his poetry in public until 1933 when he gave a lecture, The Name and Nature of Poetry, in which he argued that poetry should appeal to emotions rather than to the intellect. However, quite contrary
4、 to his usual outward appearance, he allowed himself several hedonistic hi:dnistik( 快乐主义者的)pleasures: gastronomy strnmi (享乐主义), flying in airplanes and frequently visiting France.,Major works,poems essay music and songs Literature Film and television,poem A Shropshire Lad Last Poems Fragment of a Gr
5、eek Tragedy Unkind to Unicorns Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?,1.Poems:During his years in London, A.E Housman completed his cycle of 63 poems, A Shropshire Lad. It rapidly became a lasting success, and its theme resonated powerfully with English readers. The poems are
6、full of deep pessimism and preoccupation with death.He published his best unpublished poems as Last Poems (1922) before Moses Jackson died because he wanted him to read them before his death. Housman also wrote a parodic Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English, and humorous poems published posthumou
7、sly under the title Unkind to Unicorns独角兽. “ Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?”, the poem written after the trial of Oscar Wilde, addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the poem, he made the prisoners hair color as a clearly coded reference to h
8、omosexuality.,2.Essay De Amicitia (about friendship): In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled “A. E. Housmans De Amicitia” in the British Library. The essay discussed A. E. Housmans homosexuality and his love for Jackson.,3.Music and art song: Between 1909 and 1911 George Butterwor
9、th produced settings in two collections, as Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, and Bredon Hill and other songs. He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad. Butterworth and Ivor Gurney are most important setters of Housman. A 1976 catalogue listed 400 musical settings of Housmans poems.
10、Housmans poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housmans works provided song texts, while Whitmans the texts for larger choral works. The impact in music of Housmans poetry has not been limited in time, place o
11、r style. Songwriters have also drawn much from the great poets work.,4.Literature: The references and quotations of and from Housman are rather frequent in English language literature. I just take few for instance as the followings: Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Inv
12、ention of Love. Housmans poetry (“Theres this to say for life and breath, it gives a man a taste for death“) supplies the title and is quoted in Peter ODonnells 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death. In the novel Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, he quoted Housmans poem: “The grizzly bear is
13、huge and wild / he has devoured the infant child./ The infant child is not aware / he has been eaten by the bear.” Spin won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006.,5.Film and television: John Irvins (1981) film The Dogs of War ends with Epitaph for an Army of Mercenaries being sung over the end title
14、s. In the end of the film Out of Africa (1985), the actress quoted :“rose-lipped maidens, lightfoot lads”- an allusion（暗示，提及） to Housmans “With Rue My Heart Is Laden“. Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from “Into My Heart an Air That Kills” from A Shropshire
15、Lad. The James Bond film Die Another Day takes its title from Housmans line (from A Shropshire Lad ) “But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day.”,Stylistic feature,A.E Housmans works are so abundant, and so does his features of the style. He was homosextual, so he wrote a lot of wo
16、rks to justify the legality and chanllenge the conservative perceptions. He also wrote a lot poems with deep pessimism and preoccupation with death, without religious consolation; however, he then changed his stylistic features with an idealised pastoral light, as his land of lost content.,Loveliest
17、 of Trees,Loveliest of the trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide,Now, of my threescore years and ten Twenty will not come again And take from seventy springs a score It only leaves me fifty more,And since to look at t
18、hings in bloom Fifty springs are little room About the woodlands i will go To see the cherry hung with snow,最可爱的树，樱桃树呀，此时枝头上正缀满繁花，在林间小道旁亭亭玉立，为复活季节而身披白衣,从我的七十岁可享之年，二十岁光阴已一去不返，七十载春秋减二十阳春，留给我的仅五十个年份。,既然置身花间赏花品树五十个春天还远远不足，我会再去那树林边守候，看白雪花缀满樱树枝头。,This is an English poem, its emerging in the readers eyes is a picture which appreciates the cherry peach blossom full tree, the author appreciate while cherry peach is bloom also associate to continue till aftertime for 50 years to appreciate.,
