Alfred Edward Housman (; 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.

The cherry tree, on the right, was planted in his memory ( see A Shropshire Lad, II ).

During his years in London, A. E. Housman completed A Shropshire Lad, a cycle of 63 poems.

A Shropshire Lad has been in print continuously since May 1896.

These later poems, mostly written before 1910, show a greater variety of subject and form than those in A Shropshire Lad but lack the consistency of his previously published work.

Sparrow himself adds, " How difficult it is to achieve a satisfactory analysis may be judged by considering the last poem in A Shropshire Lad.

Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his A Shropshire Lad, about his deeper sympathies.

Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, provided texts for a significant number of British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.

The first was probably the cycle A Shropshire Lad set by Arthur Somervell in 1904, who had begun to develop the concept of the English song-cycle in his version of Tennyson's Maud a little previously.

Between 1909 and 1911 George Butterworth produced settings in two collections or cycles, as Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, and Bredon Hill and other songs.

He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

* A Shropshire Lad ( 1896 )

A. E. Housman refers to the ' Greek Lad ', Narcissus, in his poem Look not in my Eyes from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth.

* A. E. Housman published A Shropshire Lad in 1896.

A Shropshire Lad.

Housman's A Shropshire Lad, in which the poet likens reading dark poems to King Mithridates ' self-immunization against poisons ), he realizes that Urquhart laced an omelette with arsenic and shared it with Boyes after having built up an immunity to the poison with small doses over a long period.

Housman's A Shropshire Lad, referring to King Mithridates VI of Pontus, who supposedly built tolerance against a whole range of deadly poisons by the same method ( known as Mithridatism ) as Urquhart.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

Samuel West has received seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ( 1996 ), Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie ( 1997 ), Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks ( 1999 ), The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain ( 2000 ), The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst ( 2007 ), Faust by Goethe ( 2011 ) and A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman ( 2011 ).

* George Butterworth – A Shropshire Lad

John Betjeman's poem " A Shropshire Lad " ( 1940 ) commemorates the death of Captain Webb, portraying his ghost swimming back along the canal to Dawley.

* Alfred Edward Housman-A Shropshire Lad

* 1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.

Henry Percy was initially buried by his nephew Thomas Nevill, 5th Baron Furnivall at Whitchurch, Shropshire with honours, but rumours soon spread that he was not really dead.

On 5 July 1223, King Henry III met with the Welsh prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth at Ludlow Castle to negotiate a peace because the latter raided Shropshire and captured Norman castles.

Alan FitzFlaad ( d. c1114 ), a Breton knight, was granted the feudal barony of Oswestry by King Henry I who, soon after his accession, invited Alan to England with other Breton friends, and gave him forfeited lands in Norfolk and Shropshire, including some which had previously belonged to Ernoulf de Hesdin ( killed at Antioch while on crusade ) and Robert de Belleme.

The Lees of Shropshire ( originally Norman de Lee ) were notable as the forebears of the colonial American Lee family which produced Richard Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee, and Zachary Taylor.

On Whit Sunday, 20 May, Henry VI awarded him the title of Comes Salopie, translated as Earl of Shropshire but despite this he popularly became Earl of Shrewsbury.

In 1598 Henry Wriothesley married Elizabeth Vernon, the daughter of John Vernon of Hodnet, Shropshire, by his wife Elizabeth Devereux.

In 1149 it was granted by Henry Plantagenet, then heir to the throne of King Stephen ( 1135 – 1154 ) to Fulk I FitzWarin ( d. 1171 ), a powerful Marcher Lord from Shropshire.

They lived for a time in Weston-super-Mare, before moving back to Mary's beloved Shropshire where they worked as market gardeners until Henry secured a job as a teacher at the Priory School for boys in Shrewsbury.

Sevenoke, Mayor of London and, as a friend of Henry V, may have been influenced by the MP for Shropshire and King's pleader, David Holbache, who founded Oswestry in 1407.

William was another powerful regional lord, and was appointed the High Sheriff of Shropshire by Adeliza of Louvain, the second wife of Henry I.

John Henry Cound Brunt was born on Wednesday 6 December 1922, in Priest Weston, Shropshire to Thomas Henry Brunt and Nesta Mary Brunt ( née Cound ).

In 1155, the year after Henry II took the throne, his faithful supporter William FitzAlan finally regained his Shropshire estates.

After the Norman Conquest of 1066 the principal estates in Shropshire were all bestowed on Norman proprietors, pre-eminent among whom is Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, whose son Robert de Bellesme forfeited his possessions for rebelling against Henry I, when the latter bestowed the Earldom on his Queen for life.

The fifteen Shropshire hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey were entirely rearranged in the reign of King Henry I, and only Overs and Condover retained their original names.

Devices called hot air engines, or simply air engines, have been recorded from as early as 1699, around the time when the laws of gasses were first set out, and early patents include those of Henry Wood, Vicar of High Ercall near Coalbrookdale Shropshire ( English patent 739 of 1759 ) and Thomas Mead, an engineer from Sculcoats Yorkshire ( English patent 979 of 1791 ), the latter in particular containing the essential elements of a displacer type engine ( Mead termed it the transferrer ).

Henry Peach Robinson ( 9 July 1830, Ludlow, Shropshire – 21 February 1901, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent ) was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing-joining multiple negatives to form a single image, the precursor to photomontage.

* William Henry Foster ( Shropshire ) ( 1846 – 1924 ), British Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bridgnorth 1870 – 1885

Later, after the formation of the Church of England, it is believed that the town was offered the status of cathedral city by Henry VIII, as the part of a proposed " Diocese of Shropshire ".

Henry died on 30 April 1563, at the age of about 62, at Caus Castle in Shropshire.

Born in Vauxhall, Henry was the second of the eight children of John Doulton ( 1793 – 1873 ), a pottery manufacturer, and his wife, Jane Duneau, a widow from Bridgnorth in Shropshire.

At the dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII, the Giffards purchased the buildings and lands of both Blackladies, a Benedictine convent just west of Brewood, and White Ladies Priory, an Augustinian convent, about three miles west of the village, in Shropshire.