A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar (born 1859)

A. E. Housman

English classicist and poet (1859–1936)

Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882. In his spare time he engaged…