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    took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by first publishing as a private scholar. Later Housman was appointed Professor...
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    Marcus Manilius (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    The work is also known for being the subject of the most salient of A. E. Housman's scholarly endeavours; his annotated edition he considered his magnum...
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  • Housman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. E. Housman (1859–1936), English classical scholar and poet Arthur Housman (1889–1942)...
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    poet Alfred E. Housman and the writer and engraver Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried to a cousin, Lucy Housman. Under the...
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  • Love is a 1997 British play by Tom Stoppard portraying the life of poet A. E. Housman, focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college...
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    ISBN 9781107012912. Goodyear, F. R. D. (2004). The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman, Volume 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 871. ISBN 0521606969...
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    Annie Housman (23 November 1861 – 6 December 1955) was an author, illustrator and activist in the women's suffrage movement. She was the sister of A. E. Housman...
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    brother, as a middle name. Leonard is a three-time Tony Award nominee, and won Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2001 for his role as A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's...
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  • A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly...
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  • List of songs based on poems (category Lists of songs about a topic)
    turned into a song ("I Danced") by the band Violent Femmes Thrice adapted E.E. Cummings' poem "Since feeling is first" into their song "A Living Dance...
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  • Gow was a colleague and friend of A. E. Housman, on whose works he became an authority. The two men shared a sharp-tongued scholarly intolerance of...
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  • setting words by A. E. Housman. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, shortly after the death from tuberculosis of his father (who was a captain in the Indian...
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    features, albeit briefly, in late-Victorian poet A. E. Housman's most famous collection of somewhat gloomy poems A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896 and never...
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    independent publications. A notable example of a complete, independent publication is Gow's A. E. Housman: A Sketch, Together with a List of His Classical...
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    credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe...
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  • Between Sea and Land" by A. E. Housman, published in More Poems. Clarke explains: "I was also to discover the lines of A. E. Housman that not only described...
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    rather than his physical beauty. A. E. Housman refers to the 'Greek Lad', Narcissus, in his poem "Look not in my Eyes" from A Shropshire Lad set to music by...
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    B. The Latinist A. E. Housman taught at the university but is more widely known for his contributions as a poet. Simon Ockley made a significant contribution...
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  • David E. Housman is an American geneticist. He is the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer...
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  • (including a Stabat Mater with string quartet and an unaccompanied Requiem), a Housman song cycle for countertenor, a Clarinet Sonatina, a large body...
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    orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry...
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  • Initialization, which forms a nickname from a person's initials: A. E. Housman from Alfred Edward Housman, or Dubya for George W. Bush, a Texan pronunciation...
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    trick. There's this to say for blood and breath; They give a man a taste for death. — A. E. Housman Little strokes Fell great oaks. — Benjamin Franklin Here...
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    When I Was One-and-Twenty (category Poetry by A. E. Housman)
    Was One-and-Twenty is the first line of the untitled Poem XIII from A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad (1896), but has often been anthologised and given musical...
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    has been a key influence of conceptions of what lyric poetry should be. Poets such as Alfred Lord Tennyson in the 19th century, and A. E. Housman in the...
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  • article: Her strong enchantments failing The title comes from a poem by A. E. Housman. It refers to Morgause, Witch-Queen of the Orkney Islands. She...
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  • (November 1934:171). E.g. by H. J. Rose in The Classical Review 48 (126, note 2), corrected by Lorimer 1934. Tov 1982:432. AE. Housman, "The Application...
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  • E. A. Pierce & Co. was a securities brokerage firm based in New York City. Founded as A. A. Housman & Co., the firm was renamed for Edward A. Pierce in...
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  • Quincey, A. E. Housman, Frédéric Chopin, Marcus Tullius Cicero and Charles Talleyrand. On two occasions, Rhys was taken to hospital while working on a stage...
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  • William Curtis, Samuel Butler, T. S. Eliot, A. E. Housman, Oscar Hammerstein II, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles E. Carryl, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, Edward...
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