Housman, Alfred Edward

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Alfred Edward Housman
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Alfred Edward Housman

Name	Housman, Alfred Edward Gender: M
born on	26 March 1859 at 16:00 (= 4:00 PM )
Place	Bromsgrove, England, 52n20, 2w03
Timezone	GMT h0w (is standard time)
Data source	Bio/autobiography Rodden Rating B
Astrology data	05°29' 08°27 Asc. 10°10'

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Biography

British writer and poet who wrote simple and direct, yet melancholy and pessimistic verse about human suffering. As a classical scholar and Latin teacher in London and at Cambridge University, he penned "A Shropshire Lad," 1896 and "The Name and Nature of Poetry," 1933. He was often a patron of male brothels in Paris.

Housman died on 4/30/1936, Cambridge, England.

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Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 30 April 1936 (Age 77)
• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1896 ("A Shropshire Lad")

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1933 ("The Name and Nature of Poetry")

Source Notes

LMR quotes G. Watson, "Alfred E. Housman, A Divided Life"

Categories

• Vocation : Education : Teacher (Latin professor and teacher)

• Vocation : Writers : Poet

• Passions : Sexuality : Homosexual male (Often visited male brothels)

• Notable : Book Collection : American Book

• Traits : Personality : Pessimist