Summary: <p><strong>Alfred Edward Housman</strong> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">/ˈhaʊsmən/</a>; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as <strong>A. E. Housman</strong>, was an English <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">classical scholar</a> and poet. His cycle of poems, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>A Shropshire Lad</em></a> wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Housman#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> Their simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian_period" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Edwardian</a> taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers both before and after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First World War</a>. Through their song-settings, the poems became closely associated with that era, and with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shropshire</a> itself.</p><p>Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Housman#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Housman#cite_note-PF-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a> He established his reputation publishing as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_scholar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">private scholar</a> and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University College London</a> and then at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Cambridge</a>. His editions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Juvenal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Manilius" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Manilius</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Annaeus_Lucanus" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lucan</a> are still considered authoritative. <em>- Bio via Wikipedia</em></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
