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A E Housman

A E Housman Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside.
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Poems by A E Housman

Bredon Hill

Clunton and Clunbury

Far in a Western Brookland

Loveliest of Trees

On Wenlock Edge

The Lads in their Hundreds

The Land of Lost Content

The Lent Lily

When I Was One-and-twenty

When Smoke Stood up from Ludlow

With Rue My Heart is Laden