Housman continued pursuing classical studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.

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deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.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

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.

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.

Housman wrote most of them while living in Highgate, London, before ever visiting that part of Shropshire ( about thirty miles from his home ), which he presented in an idealised pastoral light, as his ' land of lost content '.

Of its four stanzas, Housman tells us that two were ' given ' him ready made ; one was coaxed forth from his subconsciousness an hour or two later ; the remaining one took months of conscious composition.

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.

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.

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.

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1930 to 1933, during which time he fell under the influence both of the poet A. E. Housman, then Professor of Latin at the university, and of the writings of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

The script by Robert Vansittart and Miles Malleson ( from Laurence Housman ’ s play Victoria Regina ) alternated between the political and the personal lives of the royal couple.

Housman – contains numerous references to and quotes from the poems, but is more focused on his work as a scholar of classics.

* Authors Dead and Living ; reviews and essays from the New Statesman ( 1926 ; essay on Housman reprinted in the Critical Heritage series, ed.

Laurence Housman produced a selection from his work which was dedication to the artists daughter Mrs E. C.

For Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee A. E. Housman watched the beacons from summit of Walton Hill.

" The poets to whom he returned most often in his publications were Tennyson ( 1930, 1932, 1947, 1957 ) and Housman ( 1926, 1933, 1936, 1960 ), but he ranged widely over Classical, European and English literature.

In his paper " The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism ," ( 1921 ) Housman stated: " A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motion of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas.

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 ').

Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

He is a character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love, which deals with the life of A. E. Housman and the Oscar Wilde trials.

A notable example of a complete, independent publication is Gow's, A. E. Housman: A Sketch, Together with a List of His Classical Papers ( 1936 ).

It is based on text by Alfred Edward Housman.

There is a statue of Alfred Edward Housman in the high street, which was erected in 1985.

A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman ( 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ).

Similarly, Housman advises the speaker that it is wise to occasionally contemplate and encounter the less-than-merry side of life.

Housman, A Shropshire Lad ) — idle hill ... sleepy is a hypallage: it is the narrator, not the hill, who exhibits these features.

His sonnet to Petrarch is included in the collections of English sonnets by Robert Fletcher Housman and Alexander Dyce.

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 ).

A. E. Housman said that " the business of poetry is to harmonise the sadness of the universe " and Scannell quoted this with approval.

Leonard is a three-time Tony Award nominee ( 1993, 2001 and 2003 ), winning in 2001 ( Best Actor – Featured Play ) for his role as A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love.

The prison is mentioned in " On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank " which is part of " A Shropshire Lad " by A E Housman.

Housman believed that the edition of Manilius ( 1739 ) was Bentley's greatest work.

Set in a half-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, " the land of lost content " ( in fact Housman wrote most of the poems before visiting the county ), the poems explore the fleetingness of love and decay of youth in a spare, uncomplicated style which many critics of the time found out-of-date as compared to the exuberance of some Romantic poets.

What Lucas wrote about Housman ’ s Name and Nature of Poetry in 1933 ( though he contested some of its ideas ) sums up what he himself aspired to as a literary critic: "… the kind of critical writing that best justifies itself before the brevity of life ; that itself adds new data to our experience as well as arguing about the old ; that happily combines, in a word, philosophy with autobiography, psychology with a touch of poetry – of the ‘ poetic ’ imagination.

Similarly, he wrote that Laurence Housman had a `` too deliberate manner '' as well as a lack of `` inevitable felicity in diction ''.

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.

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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 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.

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.

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.