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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.
Housman obtained a first in classical Moderations in 1879, but his immersion in textual analysis, particularly with Propertius, led him to neglect ancient history and philosophy, which formed part of the Greats curriculum, and thus he failed to obtain a degree.
Housman found his true vocation in classical studies and treated poetry as a secondary activity.
He was closely associated with A. E. Housman, and was a friend of A. F. Scholfield, a classical scholar who was Librarian of Cambridge University Library.

Housman and published
Housman also wrote a parodic Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English, and humorous poems published posthumously under the title Unkind to Unicorns.
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deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.
* A. E. Housman published A Shropshire Lad in 1896.
Housman, published in five volumes from 1903 to 1930, is considered the authoritative edition, although some may find G. P.
The title is from the poem " Smooth between sea and land " by Alfred Edward Housman, published in More poems.
Lois Montbertrand published an article concerning O ' Brian's use of A. E. Housman's poem " Bells in the Tower " in this novel, in the Housman Society Journal 2002.

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The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.
Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.
Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').
* Brink, C. O. Lutterworth. com, English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman, James Clarke & Co ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-227-17299-5.
* Philip Gardner ed., A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage, a collection of reviews and essays on Housman ’ s poetry ( London: Routledge 1992 )
The Collection consists of about 300 books and pamphlets containing hand-written notes by Housman in margins and on loose leaves.
http :// www. lutterworth. com / jamesclarke / jc / titles / engclass. htm, English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman, James Clarke & Co ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-227-17299-5.
* Brink, C. O., English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman, James Clarke & Co ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-227-17299-5.
It is based on text by Alfred Edward Housman.
In the 1920s she became a regular speaker on behalf of the League of Nations Union, but in June 1936 she was invited to speak at a peace rally in Dorchester, where she shared a platform with Dick Sheppard, George Lansbury, Laurence Housman and Donald Soper.
Housman – contains numerous references to and quotes from the poems, but is more focused on his work as a scholar of classics.
The production opened on November 15, 2007 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, with an all-Canadian cast, except for Monica West ( Baby Housman ), Britta Lazenga ( Penny ) and Al Sapienza ( Jake Housman ).
" He also completed his Masters degree in English at Vanderbilt in 1937, beginning his thesis on A. E. Housman ( which he didn't complete until 1939 ).
* Authors Dead and Living ; reviews and essays from the New Statesman ( 1926 ; essay on Housman reprinted in the Critical Heritage series, ed.
Originally to open at the Maxine Elliott Theatre with elaborate sets and a full orchestra, the production was shut down on opening night, and Welles, Housman, and Blitzstein scrambled to rent the Venice Theatre twenty blocks north.
Clarke explains: " I was also to discover the lines of A. E. Housman that not only described the locale perfectly, but also gave me the title of my first novel: “ Here on the level sand, between the sea and land, what shall I do or write against the fall of night ?”".

Housman and such
The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.
The English Georgian poets such as A. E. Housman, Walter de la Mare and Edmund Blunden used the lyric form.
Housman also wrote children's fairy tales such as A Farm in Fairyland ( 1894 ) and fantasy stories with Christian undertones for adults, such as All-Fellows ( 1896 ), The Cloak of Friendship ( 1905 ), and Gods and Their Makers ( 1897 ).
Recently, there has been more interest in and many recordings of Moeran's works, but many of them, such as the songs to poems by A. E. Housman and James Joyce, still remain relatively unknown.
Housman challenged such reactive applications in 1922, in the provocatively titled article " The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism ".
Several individuals have refused admission into the Order of Merit, such as Rudyard Kipling, A. E. Housman, and George Bernard Shaw.
Both the Edge and the town are the subject of several poems by A. E. Housman in his famous volume A Shropshire Lad, such as: " On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble ..." and " Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town ...".
He achieved success in his own day as a composer of choral works such as The Forsaken Merman ( 1895 ), Intimations of Immortality ( which he conducted at Leeds Festival in 1907 ), and The Passion of Christ ( 1914 ) but is now chiefly remembered for his song cycles such as Maud ( after Tennyson, 1898 ) and A Shropshire Lad ( the first known setting of A. E. Housman, 1904 ).
About 40 turned up on the day of the trial, including Woolf herself, Forster and such diverse figures as biologist Julian Huxley, Laurence Housman of the British Sexological Society, Robert Cust JP of the London Morality Council, Charles Ricketts of the Royal Academy of Art and Rabbi Joseph Frederick Stern of the East London Synagogue.

Housman and authors
The following authors are quoted ( in order of their appearance in the book ): Anne Frank, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, William Cullen Bryant, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Byron, Noble Claggett, John Greenleaf Whittier, Benjamin Franklin, John Heywood, Cesare Bonesana Beccaria, Bertolt Brecht, Saint John, Charles Dickens, Isaac Watts, William Shakespeare, Plato, Robert Browning, Jean de La Fontaine, François Rabelais, Patrick R. Chalmers, Michel de Montaigne, Joseph Conrad, George William Curtis, Samuel Butler, T. S. Eliot, A. E. Housman, Oscar Hammerstein II, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles E. Carryl, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, Edward Lear, Henry David Thoreau, Sophocles, Robert Frost, and Charles Darwin.
This pantheon includes the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Arthur Somervell, Ivor Gurney, George Butterworth, Herbert Howells and Julius Harrison ; the poets A. E. Housman, John Masefield, Cecil Day-Lewis, John Drinkwater and U. A. Fanthorpe ; the authors E. V. Lucas, Arthur Quiller-Couch, William Cobbett, E. Temple Thurston, Francis Brett Young, John Moore, Fred Archer and Jenny Glanfield ; and the artists Peter de Wint, Alfred William Parsons, Benjamin Williams Leader, Frederick Whitehead, Josiah Wood Whymper, Alfred Egerton Cooper, A. R. Quinton, Henry Yeend King and Anna Hornby.

Housman and .
Similarly, he wrote that Laurence Housman had a `` too deliberate manner '' as well as a lack of `` inevitable felicity in diction ''.
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Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time.
Housman's brother Laurence Housman and sister Clemence Housman also became writers.
Housman was educated first at King Edward's School, Birmingham, then Bromsgrove School, where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry.
Although by nature rather withdrawn, Housman formed strong friendships with two roommates, Moses Jackson and A. W. Pollard.
After Oxford, Jackson got a job as a clerk in the Patent Office in London and arranged a job there for Housman as well.
They shared a flat with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885 when Housman moved to lodgings of his own.
When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.

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