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Housman

American  
[hous-muhn] / ˈhaʊs mən /

noun

  1. A(lfred) E(dward), 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar.


Housman British  
/ ˈhaʊsmən /

noun

  1. 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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For this portrait of poet A. E. Housman, Stoppard once again turned to historical figures for his cast.

From Los Angeles Times

Poetry, after all, as Housman contended, “is not the thing said but a way of saying it.”

From Washington Post

Housman, who was a professor of Latin there in the early 20th century.

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Post

That was the time of Rudyard Kipling’s “long recessional” and A. E. Housman’s “land of lost content.”

From New York Times