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Alfred Edward Housman was born in 1859 at Fockbury, Worcestershire, near the Shropshire border in England. He was a brilliant student of classics at Oxford, but after falling in love with a heterosexual fellow student named Moses Jackson, his unrequited passion may have played a part in his failing the final examinations in 1881. According to Housman’s biographer, Jackson’s rejection condemned Housman to “a lifetime of unfulfilled loneliness”

Because I liked you better
Than suits a man to say,
It irked you and I promised
To throw the thought away. [More Poems XXXI]

After Jackson’s marriage in 1888, they rarely met again, and never after Jackson retired to British Columbia, Canada, in 1911 to establish a dairy farm in Aldergrove, near Vancouver, where he died of cancer in January 1923.

Having failed his final exams, Housman spent the next 11 years as a civil servant in the Patent Office. Nevertheless, he eventually established a reputation as a great classical scholar and went on to publish acclaimed editions of Latin authors such as Ovid, Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan. He p

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The poet and scholar Alfred Edward Housman was born in Worcestershire, England in 1859 as the eldest of seven children. His father was a solicitor and tax accountant who supported Housman’s education despite being of only moderate means. Alfred was a strong student and was accepted into St. John’s College, Oxford, where he studied Classics. Despite being one of the strongest students in his course, he unexpectedly failed his final exams. Some have attributed this failing to his falling in love with his roommate, Moses Jackson—feelings that would stay with Housman throughout his life.

Despite his poor results, Housman still successfully graduated from Cambridge and went on to become a clerk at a London patent office. However, during this time he continued to study Greek and Roman classics, and in 1892 he was hired by University College, London as a professor of Classics. Twenty years later, in 1911, he moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained a professor until his death.

Housman’s scholarly caree

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A. E. Housman

English classicist and poet (1859–1936)

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Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882. In his spare time he engaged in textual criticism of classical Greek and Latin texts, and his publications as an independent researcher earned him a high academic reputation and appointment as professor of Latin at University College London in 1892. In 1911 he became the Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge. Today he is regarded as one of the foremost classicists of his age and one of the greatest classical scholars of any time.^[1]^[2] His editions of Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan are still considered authoritative.

In 1896, Housman published A Shropshire Lad, a cycle of poems marked by the author's pessimism and pr