A.E.Housman — a remark

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“Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader.”

Suggesting that habitual pleasurable reading gradually improves judgement · Lecture, The Name and Nature of Poetry, 1933

About A.E.Housman

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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