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

" Gow also relates how Housman intimidated his students, sometimes reducing them to tears.

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deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.

He also appears as a character in the play Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman.

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 ).

Another of Orwell's biographers, Michael Shelden, notes that Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham and E. M. Forster have been suggested as possible influences, but believes also that " the ghost of Housman hangs heavily over the book.

" 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 ).

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 ?”".

Clarke would also quote Housman in 3001: The Final Odyssey.

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

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 '.

Housman wrote the following verse, which makes reference to the River Teme:

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the fleetingness of love and decay of youth in a spare, uncomplicated style which many critics of the time found out-of-date as compared to the exuberance of some Romantic poets.

* In A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman wrote the verse:

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.

A. E. Housman wrote as part of his series of poems A Shropshire Lad:

Housman wrote the verse:

Housman wrote the verse:

Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his poetry.

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.

Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his 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.

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.

* 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.

* March 26 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet ( d. 1936 )

* February 20 – Laurence Housman, English playwright and writer ( b. 1865 )

* April 30 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet ( b. 1859 )

The English Georgian poets such as A. E. Housman, Walter de la Mare and Edmund Blunden used the lyric form.

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.

Laurence Housman an English playwright, writer and illustrator, lived in Street for 35 years before his death in 1959.

Laurence Housman (; 18 July 1865-20 February 1959 ) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.

His songs to poems by A. E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti, John Masefield, Rupert Brooke and others, are a valuable addition to English vocal repertoire.

* George Housman Thomas ( 1824 – 1868 ), English painter and illustrator

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

His idiosyncratic use of language, together with the corrupted state of the text, have made his elegies a challenge to edit ; among the more famous names who have offered criticism of and emendations to the text have been the classicist John Percival Postgate and the English poet A. E. Housman.

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

" 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.

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

In the early 1920s, when Moses Jackson was dying in Canada, Housman wanted to assemble his best unpublished poems so that Jackson could read them before his death.

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

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 ...".

The title is from the poem " Smooth between sea and land " by Alfred Edward Housman, published in More poems.