About the Author

Henry Maas is an editor and specialist in late nineteenth-century English art and literature, particularly the work of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson and A. E. Housman. He produced the first collected edition of Housman's letters in 1971, and his Ernest Dowson: Poetry and Love in the 1890s was published by Greenwich Exchange in 2009. His interest in Housman derives equally from love of his poetry and admiration for the resolve with which Housman mastered the troubles of his early years to become the foremost classical scholar as well as the best-known poet of his time.