This volume constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman's verse as it was established in 1939, three years after his death. In contains "A Shropshire Lad, " "Last Poems, " "More Poems, " the "Additional Poems, " and the three translations from A.W. Pollard's anthology, "Odes from the Greek Dramatists." This volume constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman's verse as it was established in 1939, three years after his death. In contains "A Shropshire Lad, " "Last Poems, " "More Poems, " the "Additional Poems, " and the three translations from A.W. Pollard's anthology, "Odes from the Greek Dramatists.