Alfred Edward Housman
Who is Alfred Edward Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by publishing as a private scholar at first. Later Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and then at the University of Cambridge. He is now acknowledged as one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars at any time. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.
In 1896 he emerged as a poet with A Shropshire Lad, a cycle in which he poses as an unsophisticated and melancholy youth. After a slow start, this captured the imagination of y...
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- Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xxiii
The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,
The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,
And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.
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- Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Xlv
If it chance your eye offend you,
Pluck it out, lad, and be sound:
'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you,
And many a balsam grows on ground.
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- Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - I - 1887
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns,
The shires have seen it plain,
From north and south the sign returns
And beacons burn again.
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- Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - Lvi - The Day Of Battle
"Far I hear the bugle blow
To call me where I would not go,
And the guns begin the song,
'Soldier, fly or stay for long.'"
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- Poems From "a Shropshire Lad" - L
Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the quietest places
Under the sun.
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- Ilqeshnace: a. e. housman (alfred edward housman) english (1859-1936)
when i was one-and-twenty
i heard a wise man say,
‘give crowns and pounds and guineas
but not your heart away
- Deathsuces: when i was one and twenty i heard a wise man say 'give crowns and pounds and guineas but not your heart away'
a. e. housman (alfred edward housman)
- Godgift64107811: i could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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