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	He was the brother of [[Laurence Housman]] the playwright and founder of [[Housman's Bookshop]].		He was the brother of [[Laurence Housman]] the playwright and founder of [[Housman's Bookshop]].

	Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at [[University College London]] and later at [[Cambridge]]. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.		Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at [[University College London]] and later at the [[University of Cambridge]]. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.

	While a student at [[St John's College, Oxford]], Housman formed strong friendships with two fellow students, Moses Jackson and the painter Alfred W Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.<ref>Claude J Summers, Claude (ed) <cite>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage</cite> (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995) p 371</ref>		While a student at [[St John's College, Oxford]], Housman formed strong friendships with two fellow students, Moses Jackson and the painter Alfred W Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.<ref>Claude J Summers, Claude (ed) <cite>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage</cite> (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995) p 371</ref>

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	Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at [[University College London]] and later at [[Cambridge]]. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.		Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at [[University College London]] and later at [[Cambridge]]. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.

	While a student at St John's College [[Oxford]], Housman formed strong friendships with two fellow ~~studnets~~, Moses Jackson and the painter Alfred W Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.<ref>Claude J Summers, Claude (ed) <cite>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage</cite> (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995) p 371</ref>		While a student at [[St John's College, Oxford]], Housman formed strong friendships with two fellow students, Moses Jackson and the painter Alfred W Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.<ref>Claude J Summers, Claude (ed) <cite>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage</cite> (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995) p 371</ref>

	In 1942 Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled "A E Housman's <cite>De Amicitia</cite>" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A E Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.<ref>Summers (1995) p 371</ref> Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>, about his deeper sympathies. Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "Fear contended with desire": "Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst".		In 1942 Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled "A E Housman's <cite>De Amicitia</cite>" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A E Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.<ref>Summers (1995) p 371</ref> Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>, about his deeper sympathies. Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "Fear contended with desire": "Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst".

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	'''Alfred Edward Housman''' (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A E Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell) both before and after the First World War. Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.		'''Alfred Edward Housman''' (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A E Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell) both before and after the First World War. Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.

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	He was the brother of [[Laurence Housman]] the playwright and founder of [[Housman's Bookshop]].		He was the brother of [[Laurence Housman]] the playwright and founder of [[Housman's Bookshop]].

	Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later at Cambridge. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.		Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at [[University College London]] and later at [[Cambridge]]. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.

	While a student at St John's College ~~oxford~~, Housman formed strong friendships with two fellow studnets, Moses Jackson and the painter Alfred W Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.<ref>Claude J Summers, Claude (ed) <cite>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage</cite> (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995) p 371</ref>		While a student at St John's College [[Oxford]], Housman formed strong friendships with two fellow studnets, Moses Jackson and the painter Alfred W Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.<ref>Claude J Summers, Claude (ed) <cite>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage</cite> (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995) p 371</ref>

	In 1942 Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled "A E Housman's <cite>De Amicitia</cite>" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A E Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.<ref>Summers (1995) p 371</ref> Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>, about his deeper sympathies. Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "Fear contended with desire": "Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst".		In 1942 Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled "A E Housman's <cite>De Amicitia</cite>" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A E Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.<ref>Summers (1995) p 371</ref> Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>, about his deeper sympathies. Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "Fear contended with desire": "Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst".

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	In 1942 Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled "A E Housman's <cite>De Amicitia</cite>" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A E Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.<ref>Summers (1995) p 371</ref> Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>, about his deeper sympathies. Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "Fear contended with desire": "Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst".		In 1942 Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled "A E Housman's <cite>De Amicitia</cite>" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A E Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.<ref>Summers (1995) p 371</ref> Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>, about his deeper sympathies. Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "Fear contended with desire": "Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst".

	In <cite>More Poems</cite>, he buries his love for Moses Jackson in the very act of commemorating it, as his feelings of love break his friendship, and must be carried silently to the grave:.<ref>Summers (1995) ~~p372~~</ref>		In <cite>More Poems</cite>, he buries his love for Moses Jackson in the very act of commemorating it, as his feelings of love break his friendship, and must be carried silently to the grave:.<ref>Summers (1995) p 372</ref>

	Because I liked you better<br>		Because I liked you better<br>
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	The heart no longer stirred,<br>		The heart no longer stirred,<br>
	And say the lad that loved you<br>		And say the lad that loved you<br>
	Was one that kept his word.<ref>A. E. Housman, <cite>More Poems,</cite> Jonathan Cape, London 1936 p.48</ref>		Was one that kept his word.<ref>A. E. Housman, <cite>More Poems,</cite> Jonathan Cape, London 1936 p 48</ref>

	His poem, "Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of [[Oscar Wilde]], addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the poem the prisoner is suffering "for the colour of his hair", a natural, given attribute which, in a clearly coded reference to homosexuality, is reviled as "nameless and abominable" (recalling the legal phrase peccatum horribile, inter christianos non nominandum, "the horrible sin, not to be named amongst Christians").		His poem, "Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of [[Oscar Wilde]], addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the poem the prisoner is suffering "for the colour of his hair", a natural, given attribute which, in a clearly coded reference to homosexuality, is reviled as "nameless and abominable" (recalling the legal phrase peccatum horribile, inter christianos non nominandum, "the horrible sin, not to be named amongst Christians").
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	While a student at St John's College oxford, Housman formed strong friendships with two fellow studnets, Moses Jackson and the painter Alfred W Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.<ref>Claude J Summers, Claude (ed) <cite>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage</cite> (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995) p 371</ref>		While a student at St John's College oxford, Housman formed strong friendships with two fellow studnets, Moses Jackson and the painter Alfred W Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual.<ref>Claude J Summers, Claude (ed) <cite>The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage</cite> (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1995) p 371</ref>

	In 1942 Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled "A E Housman's <cite>De Amicitia</cite>" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A E Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.<ref>Summers, 1995, p 371</ref> Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>, about his deeper sympathies. Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "Fear contended with desire": "Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst".		In 1942 Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled "A E Housman's <cite>De Amicitia</cite>" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A E Housman's homosexuality and his love for Jackson.<ref>Summers (1995) p 371</ref> Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his <cite>A Shropshire Lad</cite>, about his deeper sympathies. Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how "Fear contended with desire": "Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst".

	In <cite>More Poems</cite>, he buries his love for Moses Jackson in the very act of commemorating it, as his feelings of love break his friendship, and must be carried silently to the grave:.<ref>Summers (1995) p372</ref>		In <cite>More Poems</cite>, he buries his love for Moses Jackson in the very act of commemorating it, as his feelings of love break his friendship, and must be carried silently to the grave:.<ref>Summers (1995) p372</ref>