![]() ![]() I adore Flannery O'Connor's short stories about smart people behaving stupidly and I am rather obsessed with The Partridge Festival. Housman is a footnote in my literary world as well. Housman believed in the emotional power of poetry, that it should "begin with a sensation in the pit of the stomach." Cambridge-educated Latin scholar and poet, A.E. ![]() The poems did not shy away from the disapointments of that life. They have a wistful and lyrical quality that made them emblematic of the lives of young men and woman living in the English countryside, in general and of the Shropshire countryside in particular. Those poems were very popular with late Victorian and Edwardian audiences. ![]() He is most famous for his cycle of poems known as A Shropshire Lad. The English poet and classical scholar Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936) is popularly known as A. Pen Name: Born: 26 March 1859 Died: 30 April 1936 ![]()
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