“We usually fit our judgments not to the truth of things nor even to our own impressions of things, true or false, but to the standard of convention.”
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…