"The Collected Poems" constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman's verse as established in 1939, three years after his death. It contains "A Shropshire Lad" (1939), "Last Poems" (1922), "More Poems" (1936), the "Additional Poems," and three translations from A.W. Pollard's anthology, "Odes from the Greek Dramatists" (1890).