Carr published one edition of poems by A.E. Housman (1859-1936), probably in 1986, when Housman's work came out of copyright 50 years after his death. Copyright was increased to 70 years in 1995. Carr cited a verse by Housman in the front of the first edition of A Month in the Country. Some of Carr's poems seem to be in the style of Housman.
(Last updated on 16/2/2021)
SBP-HOU1: First edition
Title: Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 1986
ISBN: None
Size: 129 x 94 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: two
Binding: white printed glossy card covers
Paper: cream
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: Christopher Fiddes
Internal illustrations: 10 by Christopher Fiddes
Number in series: 90
Colophon: none
Telephone number: (0536) 514995
Printing history: none
Number of other titles listed: none
Printed by: not stated
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Content: Into my heart an air that kills...; Loveliest of trees, the cherry now...; With rue my heart is laden...; In summertime on Bredon...;Far in a western brookland...; Could man be drunk for ever...; The vane on Hughley steeple...; The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come; Epitaph on an army of mercenaries; Along the field as we came by...; When I watch the living meet...; To an athlete dying young; On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble...; Is my team ploughing...; From far, from eve and morning...; The carpenter's son; The chestnut casts his flambeaux...
Notes: Many of the poems are taken from 'A Shropshire lad' (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd, 1896). The Song of Songs is also number 90 in the series. Chris Fiddes' drawing is probably based on a photograph of Housman by E.O. Hoppé in 1910