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Alfred Edward Housman, born at Fockbury in Worcestershire, was educated in Bromsgrove and at St John’s College, Oxford. Overcoming a failure in examinations at the university, he became the greatest Latin scholar of his generation (Professor at Cambridge from 1911). A Shropshire Lad (1896), his first book of poignant, sorrowful poems, gradually came to be widely admired. Last Poems (1922) was very successful. More Poems followed in 1936; Collected Poems was published in 1939.
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McEwan, N. (1989). A. E. Housman 1859–1936. In: McEwan, N. (eds) The Twentieth Century (1900–present). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20151-8_5
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