Loveliest of trees a e housman biography

Nowadays, we think of A.E. Housman as an incredibly important poet, but in his lifetime he was better known as a famous Latin professor at Cambridge.

In fact, he didn't speak publicly about his poetry until 1933, which was only 3 years before his death in 1936. This is largely because for Housman poetry was a diversion, a hobby, something to do when not engaged in the more serious work of classical scholarship.

Even though he thought of himself as a scholar more than a poet, Housman was indeed a fine poet.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now pdf

The guy wrote many, many famous poems ("To an Athlete Dying Young" and "When I was One-and-Twenty," to name just two).

Those poems, along with "Loveliest of Trees," come from a volume Housman published in 1896 called A Shropshire Lad.

Despite its title, the book isn't about a lad from Shropshire (a county in western England), but about a bunch of lads who pass in and out of a place that is geogr