Dontrae Brown

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They say Mona Lisa is a great painter, and they also say William Shakespeare is a good play writer, but who tops them all is A.E Housman a man who took his work serious and his career even more seriously. A.E Housman was a human figure whose life and career were often moving as well as extraordinary. In Housman’s poem it captured the attention of readers everywhere this happen decades ago and people still read his books like he is still with us this goes to show that things never gets old. Housman was born in England in his poems it shows regrets and many more as you read this essay you will see. Housman was never a flashy artist but his reputation remains steady and is one of the most creative artists of his time.
Alfred Edward Housman was born in Fockbury England on March 26 in the year of 1859. (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-housman). Housman was the eldest of seven children Housman has a sibling name Laurence Housman which was his brother and a sister name Clemence Housman they were both writers also. (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-housman) .Housman mother died when he was only twelve years old leaving his father a country solicitor alone. . (A.E. Housman: The Scholar Poet (1979). John Bayle, Housman’s page 3). His mother place was replaced by a lady name Lucy an elder cousin of his father that got married in the year of 1873. (www.victorianweb.org/authors/housman/bio.html)
Furthermore, Housman early schooling was at Bromsgrove England school, called King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and then he attended Bromsgrove School where he first started winning prizes for his unique style of poetry. (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-housman ).
While Housman was at Bromsgrove he was also good in academics not just poetry. In 1877, Housma...

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...f cancer while he was still at an early age leaving him with a stepmother. Housman had a roommate that he loved but they didn’t share the same interest. But on the flip side he had many honors and awards but didn’t accept them, and he also won a degree to St. Johns College. This man will be remembered just like a Mona Lisa, or a William Shakespeare.
Lastly, Housman poem A Shropshire Lad was about a preoccupation with death and no religious consolation. It cycle of 63 poems publishers had turned it down, but he use his own money to publish it. This poem was known before World War 1, and has been printed since May 1896.
Last Poem was release in 1922 this was release for Moses Jackson before he died, and was about him. This poem talks about death, and the cruel universal. This poem left s reveling note for Jackson also. It also talks about the time of the economic.

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