There are several biographies of Housman, and a The Housman Society In some of the asperity and directness in lyrics and also scholarship, Housman defended common sense with a sarcastic wit that helped to make him widely feared. Housman the poet produced lyrics that express a Romantic pessimism in a spare, simple style. He published a five-volume critical edition, the definitive text, of his work on " Astronomica" of Manilus from 1903 to 1930. In 1911, he took the Kennedy professorship of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained for the rest of his life.Īs a scholar, Housman concentrated on Latin. After a decade with such his reputation, he ably obtain a position at University College London in 1902. Frustrated, he gained at job as a patent clerk but continued his research in the classical studies and published a variety of well-regarded papers. The eldest of seven children and a gifted student, Housman won a scholarship to Oxford, where he performed well but for various reasons neglected philosophy and ancient history subjects that failed to pique his interest and consequently failed to gain a degree. To his fellow noted classicists, his critical editing of Manilius earned him enduring fame. A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922) apparently published works of British poet and scholar Alfred Edward Housman, brother of Laurence Housman and Clemence Housman.
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