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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After death has stopped the ears. Go to Quote / Comment
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. Go to Quote / Comment
From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I. 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
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. Go to Quote / Comment