Alfred Edward Housman (/ ' h a s m n / ; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War. Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.
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Runners whom renown outran And the name died before the man. Go to Quote / Comment
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride. Go to Quote / Comment
Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as lads would choose; I cheer a dead man's sweetheart, Never ask me whose. Go to Quote / Comment
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. Go to Quote / Comment
'Long for me the rick will wait, And long will wait the fold, And long will stand the empty plate, And dinner will be cold.' Go to Quote / Comment