I lived from 1859-1936. I was from England, and am in the English category.
English poet and scholar, whose verse exerted a strong influence on later poets.
Failing his final exams he left Oxford without a degree. Ever afterward he presented himself as a coldly reserved and aloof man, a recluse seemingly without emotional life.
After serving for 10 years in the civil service, he became in 1892 a professor of Latin at University College, London, and in 1911 professor of Latin at Cambridge and fellow of Trinity College.
Housman proved to be one of the finest classical scholars of his time. He produced a monumental edition of Manilius (5 vol., 1903–30), edited Juvenal (1905) and Lucan (1926), and wrote valuable classical studies. But it is as a poet that he is best known, although only two small volumes appeared during his lifetime, A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922). His verse is noted for its economy of words and directness of statement, pictures of the English countryside, and the fusion of humour and pathos. The passing of youth and the inevitability of death is his most characteristic theme. His best-known poems include “When I Was One-and-twenty,” “With Rue My Heart Is Laden,” “To an Athlete Dying Young,” and “Far in a Western Brookland. ” His essay The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933) was originally given as a lecture at Cambridge.
Albert Edward Houseman died in 1936
Failing his final exams he left Oxford without a degree. Ever afterward he presented himself as a coldly reserved and aloof man, a recluse seemingly without emotional life.
After serving for 10 years in the civil service, he became in 1892 a professor of Latin at University College, London, and in 1911 professor of Latin at Cambridge and fellow of Trinity College.
Housman proved to be one of the finest classical scholars of his time. He produced a monumental edition of Manilius (5 vol., 1903–30), edited Juvenal (1905) and Lucan (1926), and wrote valuable classical studies. But it is as a poet that he is best known, although only two small volumes appeared during his lifetime, A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922). His verse is noted for its economy of words and directness of statement, pictures of the English countryside, and the fusion of humour and pathos. The passing of youth and the inevitability of death is his most characteristic theme. His best-known poems include “When I Was One-and-twenty,” “With Rue My Heart Is Laden,” “To an Athlete Dying Young,” and “Far in a Western Brookland. ” His essay The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933) was originally given as a lecture at Cambridge.
Albert Edward Houseman died in 1936
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