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A.E. Housman was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. He was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England, UK, on 26 March 1859. He was the eldest of seven children born to Sarah Jane (née Morris) and Edward Housman. Housman was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham and at St John's College, Oxford, where he achieved a first-class honours degree in classical moderations in 1881 and a first-class honours degree in literae humaniores in 1882. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1892. Housman's first book of poetry, A Shropshire Lad, was published in 1896 and was an immediate success. He went on to publish several more volumes of poetry, including Last Poems (1922) and More Poems (1936). He also wrote several scholarly works, including Manilius (1903) and The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933). Housman died on 30 April 1936 in Cambridge, England, UK. He was 77 years old. His net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 26 March 1859
Birthday 26 March
Birthplace Fockbury, Worcestershire, England, UK
Date of death 30 April, 1936
Died Place Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Nationality United Kingdom

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1936

A supplementary volume, 'More Poems', was published in 1936 shortly after his death, edited by his brother Laurence. The following year Laurence published a biography including eighteen further poems. Among these were poems too explicit or personal to be published during his lifetime, e. g. 'Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists' (about the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde). At Oxford Housman had fallen in love with a fellow undergraduate, Moses Jackson. Jackson did not reciprocate his affection and may not even have been aware of it.

1929

He refused all the honours and awards offered him, including six honorary degrees from British universities and (in 1929) the Order of Merit. He did however accept the fellowship of St. John's College, Oxford.

1922

Although sales were initially slow, by the time his second volume, 'Last Poems', was published in 1922 it had achieved the status of a modern classic and Housman had become something of a literary celebrity, a position with which he was less than entirely comfortable. His poems are frequently concise, often suggesting the rhythms of traditional ballads. Frequently they evoke the English countryside, specifically that of Housman's native West Midlands. His subject-matter is often melancholy: recurring themes include unrequited love and the death of young men (in war, by suicide, or by hanging).

1911

In 1911 he was made Benjamin Hall Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge, where he taught until a few days before his death.

1903

This was followed by editions of works by Manilius (1903-30, in five volumes), Juvenal (1905) and Lucan (1926).

1896

Housman's first volume of poetry, 'A Shropshire Lad', was published in 1896.

1894

While teaching at UCL he published an edition of Ovid 's `Ibis' (in 1894).

1892

During this period he began publishing articles on Latin and Greek poetry, and by 1892, when he applied for the post of Professor of Latin at University College London, he had twenty-five published articles to his name.

1887

However, in 1887 Moses left the country for India, returning briefly two years later to marry. Thereafter his contact with Housman was minimal. 'A Shropshire Lad' was dedicated to him, as was the first volume of Housman's edition of Manilius. Housman's avowed atheism is expressed in such poems as 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries' and 'Easter Hymn'. However, he also described the Church of England as 'the best religion I have ever come across', and much of his poetry echoes the language of the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible. Perhaps his most religious work (superficially at least) is 'For My Funeral'.

1882

In 1882 he began working at the Patent Office as a clerk.

He was already working at the Patent Office when Housman applied for a job there, and from 1882 to 1887 Housman lived with Jackson and his brother in lodgings in Bayswater.

1881

However, he failed his second Public Examination in 1881, partly through neglecting the study of philosophy and history, towards which the course was geared, in favour of the poetry and textual criticism in which he was interested. Consequently he left Oxford without a degree.

1879

In his first Public Examination in 1879, he gained first-class honours.

1877

In 1877 he won another scholarship, to St. John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics.

1870

English poet and scholar. He was the eldest of seven children born to Edward Housman, a solicitor, and Sarah Jane Housman (née Williams). Housman was brought up and educated in Worcestershire, winning a scholarship to Bromsgrove School in 1870.