“I think that to transfuse emotion, not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer, is the peculiar function of poetry.”
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…