Alfred Edward Housman
Poetic Styles of Alfred E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman, son of Edward and Sarah Jane Housman, was the eldest of 7 children and was born in Fockbury, England in 1859, just as the US Civil War was ending.
(Donald E. Stanford 214) As a young child, he was disturbed by the news of slaughter from the former British colonies, and was affected deeply. He was also affect by his mother's death when Housman was only twelve years old. (
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