Biography of Alfred Edward Housman

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Very few are familiar with Alfred Edward Housman better known as A. E. Housman or his works. As Housman matured and evolved, so did his poems. His success overshadowed many other poets during that time. The majority of his poems expressed his love for his heterosexual college roommate, Moses Jackson.That expression of love was a driving force behind most of his poems.That defining point in his life catapulted his writing style. Housman was best known for his creative love poems with weird endings, due to this hidden passion. He also expressed that the dead still had their ways of showing love to each other. Little is known about how Housman really communicated to people through his poems. The sadness and doubtfulness that Housman poems grasp, awaken the attention of readers. His poems are still being read and studied throughout the world.( http://www.biography.com)
Alfred Edward Housman was born on March 26, 1859, at Valley House in Fockbury. The Valley House was near Bromsgrove in Worchester. He was the eldest of seven children. His father was practicing to be a lawyer but worked as a country solicitor. While growing up, he and a few of his siblings were avid writers of poetry. They enjoyed writing humorous poetry. Within his adult years, despite the rise in importance of novels in literary form, his more mature poetry often displays touches of grim comedy, even a carryover from the juvenilia. Housman early years were saddened by his mothers’ illness and death. Her death had a lasting impact on his life. The lack of his fathers’skills of being a good husband and a good father often caused the family some financial troubles and many other problems. The hard shiphe and his family experienced as a child was deeply emb...

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This poem explains how you should stay a true friend to others. That if you have true friends that they’ll stay true to you at all times. And that if they aren’t your true friends they’ll soon part from you. Then, you’ll see who your true friends at the end were. Neither should you allow other people to run over you or use you. To have a mind of your own and toalsothink for yourself.

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1. “Alfred Edward Housman”, 2014, Biography.com website. – http:// www.biography.com/people/ae-housman.
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5. Housman A.E, When I was one-and-twenty, London . - 1920. Pgs. 964

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