![]() After a slow start, this captured the imagination of young readers, its preoccupation with early death appealing to them especially during times of war. In 1896 he emerged as a poet with A Shropshire Lad, a cycle in which he poses as an unsophisticated and melancholy youth. ![]() His editions of Juvenal, Manilius, and Lucan are still considered authoritative. He is now acknowledged as one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of any time. Later Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and then at the University of Cambridge. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by publishing as a private scholar at first. ![]() Alfred Edward Housman ( / ˈ h aʊ s m ən/ 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. ![]()
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