A.E. Housman Biography

A.E. Housman biography

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NAME: A.E. Housman
OCCUPATION: Scholar, Poet
BIRTH DATE: March 26, 1859
DEATH DATE: April 30, 1936
EDUCATION: King Edward's School, Bromsgrove School, St. John's College
PLACE OF BIRTH: Fockbury, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Full Name: Alfred Edward Housman
AKA: Alfred Housman
AKA: A.E. Housman

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A.E. Housman was an English scholar and poet whose poems were based on classical models and expressed a Romantic pessimism in a spare, simple style. He published two volumes of poetry: A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems.

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Famed scholar and poet A.E. Housman was born on March 26, 1859, in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England. His major scholarly effort was an annotated edition of Marcus Manilius. Housman's first poetry volume, A Shropshire Lad, was based on classical and traditional models; its lyrics express a Romantic pessimism in a spare, simple style, and it gradually grew popular. His second and last volume of poetry, Last Poems, published in 1922, was extremely successful.