A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside. Their beauty, simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers both before and after the First World War. Through...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 March 1859
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.