“The pleasure of discovery differs from other pleasures in this, that it…” — A.E.Housman

“The pleasure of discovery differs from other pleasures in this, that it is shadowed by no fear of satiety on the one hand or of frustration on the other.”

Celebrating discovery as a pleasure capable of continual renewal · Introductory Lecture, University College London, 1892

A.E.Housman

About A.E.Housman

26 March 1859–30 April 1936

Alfred Edward Housman was born on 26 March 1859 at Valley House, Fockbury, a small hamlet near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England, and died in Cambridge on 30 April 1936. He became, by way of an unusually divided life, both one of the most recognizable lyric poets in English and one of the most formidable classical…

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