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Housman, A.E.

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Housman, A.E. ( Alfred Edward) (1859–1936) English poet and scholar. Housman is best known for A Shropshire Lad (1896), a series of 63 lyrics on nature and love. Its idealized view of the English countryside proved extremely popular. His Collected Poems appeared in 1939.

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