Summary: <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. <em>- bio via Wikipedia. </em><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>
