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.

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.

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

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

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.

Kingsmill's parody of A. E. Housman's poetry has been recognized as definitive: What still alive at twenty-two,

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deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.

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.

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

The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

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

:: Even for Housman's verse.

It is perhaps best known as the setting for A. E. Housman's poem " On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble ".

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

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 ''.

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.

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

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

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

Supported and encouraged by important royal French and English patrons, she influenced 15th-century English poetry.

Thomas ' early poetry was noted for its verbal density, alliteration, sprung rhythm and internal rhyme, and he was described by some critics as having being influenced by English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

I'm not influenced by Welsh bardic poetry.

The lyrics up to this point ( most of them written by Peart ) were heavily influenced by classical poetry, fantasy literature, science fiction, and the writings of novelist Ayn Rand, as exhibited most prominently by their 1975 song " Anthem " from Fly By Night and a specifically acknowledged derivation in 2112 ( 1976 ).

Lovelace ’ s poetry was often influenced by his experiences with politics and association with important figures of his time.

Whereas previous rulers had been influenced by Persian culture ( Suleiman's father, Selim I, wrote poetry in Persian ), Suleiman's patronage of the arts had seen the Ottoman Empire assert its own artistic legacy.

Turkish literature during the Ottoman period, particularly Ottoman Divan poetry, was heavily influenced by Persian, including the adoption of poetic meters and a great quantity of imported words.

They became strongly influenced by the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, John Ruskin's essay " The Nature of Gothic " from the second volume of The Stones of Venice, Thomas Malory's Morte d ' Arthur and the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

The prints also influenced early Modernist poetry in many important ways, with Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and Amy Lowell allowing them strongly to influence their imagery and aesthetic sentiments.

In poetry, the work and thought of American Charles Olson was strongly influenced by Whitehead's concepts.

Early in his life, Gautier befriended Gérard de Nerval, who influenced him greatly in his earlier poetry and also through whom he was introduced to Victor Hugo.

The group was heavily influenced by the preceding avante-garde movements of Dadaism and Surrealism, seeking to apply critical theories based on these concepts to all areas of art and culture, most notably in poetry, film, painting and political theory.

Catullus was influenced by both archaic and Hellenistic Greek verse and belonged to a group of Roman poets called the Neoteroi (" newer poets "), who spurned epic poetry, following the lead of Callimachus, and instead composed brief highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres.

Lyric poetry dealing with relationships, sex and domestic life constituted the new mainstream of American poetry in the late 20th century, influenced by the confessional poets of the 1950s and 60s, such as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

Other People: A Mystery Story ( 1981 ), about a young woman coming out of a coma, was a transitional novel in that it was the first of Amis's to show authorial intervention in the narrative voice, and highly artificed language in the heroine's descriptions of everyday objects, which was said to be influenced by his contemporary Craig Raine's " Martian " school of poetry.

Deeply influenced by André Gide, Cernuda embraced his homosexuality at an early age and made homosexual desire and love the core of his poetry.

In Romania, symbolists directly influenced by French poetry first gained influence during the 1880s, when Alexandru Macedonski reunited a group of young poets associated with his magazine Literatorul.

Another early example is the use of interior monologue by T. S. Eliot in his poem " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " ( 1915 ), a work probably influenced by the narrative poetry of Robert Browning, including " Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister ".

Imagism influenced a number of poetry circles and movements in the 1950s, especially the Beat generation, the Black Mountain poets, and others associated with the San Francisco Renaissance.