ABOUT A.E. HOUSMAN
Poet and scholar who is best remembered for his collection of 63 poems titled A Shropshire Lad. His 1922 collection titled Last Poems also received praise from his contemporaries. He was also a professor at both University College London and University of Cambridge .
He studied at King Edward's School in Birmingham before attending Bromsgrove School.
After graduating from the University of Oxford he worked as a clerk in the Patent Office. His cremated remains were interred outside St Laurence's Church, Ludlow. He was an atheist. In 1986, he published a cycle of 63 poems called A Shropshire Lad. The poems in the cycle were characterized by a feeling of pessimism without religious comfort.
His brother Laurence Housman was a playwrite.
Both he and Edgar Allan Poe were published poets during their time.
