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The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Newsweek in 2009 ranked it first in its Top 100 Books. In 2007, Time magazine ranked War and Peace third in its poll of the 10 greatest books of all time while Anna Karenina was ranked first.
A Shropshire Lad was published in 1896, and so has nothing to do with the First World War. Internal evidence in the `war poems' in Last Poems (1922) also suggests that they are not about that conflict, the more so as Housman's own introduction dates most of them to between 1895 and 1910.. Almost certainly, yes, if by that you mean that he was capable of being in love with men. The love of his life seems to have been a male friend of his from Oxford, Moses Jackson, who was not a homosexual and may not even have been aware of this crush of Housman's.