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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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. Go to Quote / Comment
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. 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
East and west on fields forgotten Bleach the bones of comrades slain,... Go to Quote / Comment
And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,... Go to Quote / Comment