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A. E. Housman

English classicist and poet (1859–1936)

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Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882. In his spare time he engaged in textual criticism of classical Greek and Latin texts, and his publications as an independent researcher earned him a high academic reputation and appointment as professor of Latin at University College London in 1892. In 1911 he became the Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge. Today he is regarded as one of the foremost classicists of his age and one of the greatest classical scholars of any time.^[1]^[2] His editions of Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan are still considered authoritative.

In 1896, Housman published A Shropshire Lad, a cycle of poems marked by the author's pessimism and pr

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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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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