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Housman
[ hous-muhn ]
noun
- A(lfred) E(dward), 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar.
Housman
/ ˈʊə /
noun
- HousmanA(lfred) E(dward)18591936MEnglishWRITING: poetHISTORY: classical scholar A ( lfred ) E ( dward ). 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar, author of A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922)
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Poetry, after all, as Housman contended, “is not the thing said but a way of saying it.”
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Housman, who was a professor of Latin there in the early 20th century.
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No one paid much attention to the final speaker, Henry himself, who went to the podium and read, inaudibly and without comment, a short poem by A. E. Housman.
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Housman and Rupert Brooke, the stirringly patriotic music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, the doomed Scott Antarctic expedition, the cult of Nature and, not least, Robert Baden-Powell’s creation of the Boy Scouts.
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That was the time of Rudyard Kipling’s “long recessional” and A. E. Housman’s “land of lost content.”
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