The Housman Society Journal Volume Forty-Four2018 Editor: Derek Littlewood The Housman Society 80 New Road Bromsgrove WorcestershireB 60 2LA England CharityNumber 100107 ISSN 0305-926X Website: http://www.housman-society.co.uk E-mail:
[email protected] TheReproduced illustration by on courtesy the cover of the is Nationalfromthe drawingPortrait ofGallery, A. E. Housman London by Francis Dodd, 1926 The Housman Society Founders John Pugh and Joe Hunt President Sir Christopher Ricks, MA, BLitt., FBA Vice-Presidents Prof. Archie Burnett MA, DPhil Peter Clague MA, MBA Prof. Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV Sir Andrew Motion FRSL P.G. Naiditch MA, MLS Jim Page MBE, MA Prof. Norman Page MA, PhD, FRSCan. Sir Tom Stoppard OM, OBE Gerald Symons Chairman Peter Waine BSc. Vice-Chairman Andrew Maund MA, MPhil General Secretary Max Hunt MA, Dip.Ed. Treasurer Richard Aust OBE, M.Ed., MSc, Dip.Sp.Ed. Editor of the Journal Derek Littlewood BA, MA, PhD Editor of the Newsletter Julian Hunt FSA Committee Jane Allsopp BMus. Jennie McGregor-Smith Jo Slade BA (Hons) Econ. Pat Tansell Housman Society Journal Volume Forty-Four December 2018 Laurence Housman as Literary Executor Julian Hunt of A.E. Housman 1 Letters from Laurence and Clemence Housman Julian Hunt 10 to Ida Stafford Northcote Rutupinaque litora and Lucan vi 67 Andrew Breeze 27 Orcadas and Juvenal ii 161 Andrew Breeze 36 And Thick on Severn Snow the Leaves Andrew Breeze 46 ‘Grasp the Nettle’: Some Thoughts on ASL XVI Darrell Sutton 59 Review of Edgar Vincent, A. E. Housman: Hero of the Hidden Life Andrew Maund 69 Biographies of Contributors 76 The Housman Society and Journal 77 Laurence Housman as Literary Executor of A.E.