“How the world is managed, and why it was created, I cannot tell; but it is no featherbed for the repose of sluggards.”
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…