A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)

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Alfred Edward Houseman was born on March 26, 1859 in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England. He was an English scholar and celebrated poet whose lyrics express a Romantic pessimism in a spare, simple style. Housman, whose father was a solicitor, was one of seven children. He much preferred his mother; and her death on his 12th birthday was a cruel blow, which is surely one source of the pessimism his poetry expresses. While a student at Oxford, he was further oppressed by his dawning realization.. Continue..

Some of A. E. Housman Poems

To An Athlete Dying Young

Terence, This is Stupid Stuff

When I Was One-and-Twenty

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

Is My Team Ploughing

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Quote from Author

	Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

- A. E. Housman

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