A.E. Housman

Editors: David Butterfield is W.H.D. Rouse Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge, UK. Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow, University of Swansea, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Classics, University of London , UK.Contributors: D.J. Butterfield, Christ's College, Cambridge; E. Courtney, University of Virginia; J. Diggle, Queens' College, Cambridge; S.J. Heyworth, Wadham College, Oxford; N. Hopkinson, Trinity College, Cambridge; E.J. Kenney, Peterhouse, Cambridge; J.H.C. Leach, Pembroke College, Oxford; L. Lehnus, University of Milan; G. Luck, Johns Hopkins University; R.G.M. Nisbet, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; S.P. Oakley, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; M.D. Reeve, Pembroke College, Cambridge; C.A. Stray, Swansea; G.D. Williams, Columbia University.

• Preface List of Contributors Abbreviations Introduction - C.A. Stray Part I. Housman the Scholar1. Housman and Propertius - S.J. Heyworth 2. Housman’s Manilius - E. Courtney 3. Housman’s Juvenal - R.G.M. Nisbet 4. Housman, Lucan and Fraenkel - S.P. Oakley 5. Housman and Ovid’s Ibis - G.D. Williams 6. Housman on Metre and Prosody - D.J. Butterfield 7. Dust and Fudge: manuscripts in Housman’s generation - M.D. Reeve Part II. Housman’s Scholarly Environment8. Housman and R.C. Jebb: intellectual styles and the politics of metre - C.A. Stray

Butterfield, Stray, et al. have done an excellent job of restoring Housman to his proper place in the history of classical scholarship and of reminding us that there is more to Housman than his poetry.