A.E Housman 18591936

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A.E Housman(1859-1936)
When I was one-and-twenty / I heard him say
again, / The heart out of the bosom / Was never
given in vain / Tis paid with sighs a plenty /
And sold for endless rue, / And I am
two-and-twenty, / And oh, tis true, tis true.-
When I was twenty-one
By John B Period 6.
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Birth Death

• Birth name Alfred Edward Housman
• Born in 1859
• Born near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England
• Died the 30th of April, 1936
• His ashes were buried against the North Wall of
  St. Lawrences Church
• A statue of him stands tall in Bromsgrove High
  Street

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Family

• Eldest of seven children
• Housmans younger brother, Laurence became a well
  known dramatist
• His sister Clemence became a novelist and short
  story writer
• Housmans mother died when he was only twelve

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Education

• First school was Bromsgrove School that
  emphasized Latin
• Earned a scholarship at St. Johns Collge, Oxford
• Was appointed to the Chair of Latin at University
  College

• In 1910 he became professor of Latin at Cambridge
  where he remained until his death

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Contributions to American Literature

• A.E Housman was well known for A Shropshire Lad
  which consists of sixty-three verses set in a
  somewhat imaginary setting
• His other well known work was Last Poems
• Housman finished that piece of work so Moses
  Jackson could have it, a person in which Housman
  admired greatly
• Housmans poems became more well known during
  World War I

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Housmans Works

• Housman had a lot of poems, definitely over
  one-hundred
• All of his work was put into four books
• A Shropshire Lad
• Last Poems
• More Poems
• Additonal Poems

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Housmans Recognition's

• Housman only had one recognition which was when
  he gave the lecture The Name and Nature of Poetry
  at the Senate House in Cambridge and this was
  attended by many leading literary figures of the
  day.

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Works Cited

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• lthttp//www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/aehousman.htmlgt