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.

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.

Housman's A Shropshire Lad, the speaker asks the question, " Say, for what were hop-yards meant, / Or why was Burton built on Trent?

In addition, his sonnet 13 ( Hesperia ) has much the same theme as Housman's " Into my heart an air that kills " ( A Shropshire Lad XL ).

A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housman's own expense after several publishers had turned it down, much to the surprise of his colleagues and students.

One of Housman's most familiar poems is number XIII from A Shropshire Lad, untitled but often anthologised under a title taken from its first line.

Lord Peter Wimsey's manservant Bunter is putting his Lordship's books away and looks with some curiosity at the chosen few left open on the table, including Housman's " A Shropshire Lad ".

Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

Housman's A Shropshire Lad and first published by Harper & Row in 1975.

Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

Housman's " Terence, this is stupid stuff " ( originally published in A Shropshire Lad ) invokes mithridatism as a metaphor for the benefit that serious poetry brings to the reader.

Most importantly, like McGonagall, she was drawn to themes of accident, disaster, and sudden death ; as has been said of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, in her pages you can count the dead and wounded.

The hill is immortalised in poem 21 of A. E. Housman's 1896 anthology A Shropshire Lad.

* The Clee hills are mentioned in A. E. Housman's poem " From Clee to heaven the beacon burns ", which is a section of A Shropshire Lad.

But he admired Housman's `` subtle intellectuality '' and delighted in the inversion by which Divine Love becomes the most `` fatal '' allurement in `` Love The Tempter ''.

After his death Housman's brother, Laurence, published further poems which appeared in More Poems ( 1936 ) and Collected Poems ( 1939 ).

John Sparrow found statements in a letter written late in Housman's life which describe how his poems came into existence:

A 1976 catalogue listed 400 musical settings of Housman's poems.

Housman's first literary success came with the novel An Englishwoman's Love-letters ( 1900 ), published anonymously.

At first the book sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ), Housman's nostalgic depiction of rural life and young men's early deaths struck a chord with English readers and the book became a bestseller.

Though some explain Housman's unexpected failure in his final exams as a result of Jackson's rejection, most biographers adduce a variety of reasons, indifference to philosophy, overconfidence in his praeternatural gifts, a contempt for inexact learning, and enjoyment of idling away his time with Jackson, conjoined with news of his father's desperate illness as the more immediate and germane causes.

In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.

Even composers not directly associated with the ' pastoral ' tradition, such as Arnold Bax, Lennox Berkeley and Arthur Bliss, were attracted to Housman's poetry.

* Homosexual – from the Greek ὁμός ( homos ) meaning " same " and the Latin sexus meaning " gender " ( This example is remarked on in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, with A. E. Housman's character saying " Homosexuality?

The University of Worcester has acknowledged Housman's local connection by naming a new building after him.

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.

Housman's brother Laurence Housman and sister Clemence Housman also became writers.

Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the latter's feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.

Housman's grave at St. Laurence's Church in Ludlow.

Although Housman's early work and his sphere of responsibilities as professor included both Latin and Greek, he began to focus his energy on Latin poetry.

Classics Professor G. P. Goold at University College, wrote of Housman's scholarly accomplishments: " The legacy of Housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value ; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about Latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work ....

The essay discussed A. E. Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

Many titles for novels and films have been drawn from Housman's poetry.

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.

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 Shropshire Lad: Authorized Edition: Henry Holt and Company ( 1924 )

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.

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