Housman

[ hous-muhn ]

noun

1. A(lfred) E(dward), 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar.

Housman

/ ˈhaʊsmən /

noun

1. HousmanA(lfred) E(dward)18591936MEnglishWRITING: poetHISTORY: classical scholar A ( lfred ) E ( dward ). 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar, author of A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922)

Example Sentences

Poetry, after all, as Housman contended, “is not the thing said but a way of saying it.”

From Washington Post

Housman, who was a professor of Latin there in the early 20th century.

From Washington Post

No one paid much attention to the final speaker, Henry himself, who went to the podium and read, inaudibly and without comment, a short poem by A. E. Housman.

From Literature

Housman and Rupert Brooke, the stirringly patriotic music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, the doomed Scott Antarctic expedition, the cult of Nature and, not least, Robert Baden-Powell’s creation of the Boy Scouts.

From Washington Post

That was the time of Rudyard Kipling’s “long recessional” and A. E. Housman’s “land of lost content.”

From New York Times