Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and classical scholar whose work became a major force in turn of the century English poetry.
His best-known work, "A Shropshire Lad", is a cycle of 63.
Unlike his contemporaries, Housman\'s poetry does not qualify as Romantic, Victorian, or Modernist, and is not overly sentimental or optimistic; instead, his deeply pessimistic and ironic poetry, written clearly and succinctly, earned Housman recognition as one of the foremost classicists of his time.
Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and classical scholar whose work became a major force in turn of the century English poetry