Housman, << HOWS muhn, >> A. E. (1859-1936), a British poet and scholar, wrote melancholy lyrics about human suffering. His outlook on life was pessimistic, and his poems characteristically express the fleeting quality of love and beauty. He published only two books of verse: A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922). After his death on April 30, 1936, his brother Laurence published More Poems (1936), Collected Poems (1939), and Manuscript Poems (1955).
Alfred Edward Housman was born on March 26, 1859, in Fockbury, England. He was a classical scholar and taught Latin at the University of London and at Cambridge University.
See also “To an Athlete Dying Young.
