A.E.Housman — a remark

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“My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.”

A classic expression of Housman's dry and antisocial humour · Letter to Neilson Abeel, 4 October 1935

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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