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lfred Edward Housman had two careers and excelled in both. He was a popular poet (still is) and one of his country's greatest Latinists. He was born in 1859 in Worcestershire with the Clee Hills of Shropshire on the western horizon. He was the oldest, and therefore the leader, of seven children (one sister said he taught her, in a game of moons and planets, all the astronomy she ever knew).There were always gardens, with streams and woods nearby.

A. E. Housman by William Rothenstein. [Click on image to enlarge it.]

His mother died of cancer on his twelfth birthday: by his thirteenth he was a deist, and a few years later became the atheist he remained all his life. He won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. Pater was there, Wilde was in his last term, Jowett was Master of Balliol, Ruskin was visiting professor of art, Hopkins was a priest writing 'Duns Scotus's Oxford' about the 'base and brickish skirt' already encroaching on the town. It was a very Victorian place (apart from Wilde's outrageously coloured knickerbockers) of mutton-chop whiskers, frock coats and stove p

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Readers have long found in “A Shropshire Lad” what they wanted to find.Illustration by Guido Scarabottolo

In person, A. E. Housman was so shy and furtive that Max Beerbohm once compared him to “an absconding cashier.” For such a crabbed and elusive figure, though, he continues to draw a surprising amount of attention: books, articles, musical tributes, even a Broadway play, Tom Stoppard’s “The Invention of Love.” Academics know him the way he is mostly depicted in that play—as a formidable classicist, probably the greatest of his generation. But the real source of his fame is a single small volume of poetry, “A Shropshire Lad,” which has never been out of print since it was published, in 1896. Somehow, these sixty-three short lyrics, celebrating youth, loss, and early death, became for generations of readers the perfect evocation not merely of what it feels like to be adolescent and a little emotional but of what it means to be English. We don’t have anything remotely like it in American lit. Some of Emily Dickinson’s brief lyrics come closest—tonally, and in their mastery of

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The poet and scholar Alfred Edward Housman was born in Worcestershire, England in 1859 as the eldest of seven children. His father was a solicitor and tax accountant who supported Housman’s education despite being of only moderate means. Alfred was a strong student and was accepted into St. John’s College, Oxford, where he studied Classics. Despite being one of the strongest students in his course, he unexpectedly failed his final exams. Some have attributed this failing to his falling in love with his roommate, Moses Jackson—feelings that would stay with Housman throughout his life.

Despite his poor results, Housman still successfully graduated from Cambridge and went on to become a clerk at a London patent office. However, during this time he continued to study Greek and Roman classics, and in 1892 he was hired by University College, London as a professor of Classics. Twenty years later, in 1911, he moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained a professor until his death.

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