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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Long 47 Earth 39 Morning 37 High 36 Stand 32 Never 30 Grave 30 Soul 29 Heart 28 Night 28


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Spoonistmonk: the great war - part.1/on the idle hill of summer - alfred edward housman:
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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. -alfred edward housman kalim~ sumbul gracing bb16 finale
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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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