Introduction Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Housman's Level Tones ; A.Burnett The Critical Reception of A Shropshire Lad ; B.F.Fisher The Land of Lost Content; K.Jebb Tacit Pledges; G.Hill Ashes Under Uricon ; Historicizing A.E.Housman, Reifying T.H.Huxley, Embracing Lucretius; K.Womack A.E.Housman and Thomas Hardy; N.Page Flowers to Fair : A Shropshire Lad's Legacy of Song; T.Hold Housman's Manilius; G.P.Goold Lewis Carroll in Shropshire; J.Bayley The First Edition of A Shropshire Lad in Book Shop and Auction Room; P.G.Naiditch A.E.Housman's Use of Biblical Narrative; C.Efrati The Spirit of Haiku and A.E.Housman ; T.Obata A Select Bibliography; A.E.Housman Index