A. E. Housman

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AEH , who was also a classical scholar, editor, and critic, is best known for his poetry, mostly in ballad form. His first publication happened in 1896, and the last was posthumous. His characteristic subjects are personal loss, longing, and regret for lost youth and the past.

Milestones

26 March 1859

AEH , poet and classical scholar, was born in Fockbury, near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

March 1896

AEH published at his own expense A Shropshire Lad, containing sixty-three poems, many in ballad form.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Housman, A. E. “Editorial Materials”. The Letters of A. E. Housman, edited by Henry Maas, Rupert Hart-Davis, p. various pages.
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30 April 1936

AEH , poet and classical scholar, died of myocarditis in the Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington Road, Cambridge.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

26 March 1859

AEH , poet and classical scholar, was born in Fockbury, near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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