Alfred Edward Housman
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)
Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed the final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
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Valley House, Housman's birthplace
The site of the 17th-century Fockbury House (later known as The Clock House). Home of Housman from 1873 to 1878
Home of Housman from 1860 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1882. His younger brother Laurence was born here in 1865.
Housman's grave marker
Housman's grave at St Laurence's Church in Ludlow
Moses Jackson (1858-1923) as an undergraduate c. 1880
Housman statue in BromsgroveListen
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Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed the 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 a professor of Latin at University College London in 1892. In 1911 he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge. He is regarded as one of the foremost classicists of his age and one of the greatest classical scholars. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan are still considered authoritative.
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