About
Poet and scholar who is best remembered for his collection of 63 poems titled A Shropshire Lad. His 1922 collection titled Last Poems also received praise from his contemporaries. He was also a professor at both University College London and University of Cambridge.
Before Fame
He studied at King Edward's School in Birmingham before attending Bromsgrove School.
Trivia
After graduating from the University of Oxford he worked as a clerk in the Patent Office. His cremated remains were interred outside St Laurence's Church, Ludlow. He was an atheist. In 1986, he published a cycle of 63 poems called A Shropshire Lad. The poems in the cycle were characterized by a feeling of pessimism without religious comfort.
Family Life
His brother Laurence Housman was a playwrite.
Associated With
Both he and Edgar Allan Poe were published poets during their time.
