Alfred Edward Housman

Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), popularly known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. He was employed as a clerk in London, and thereafter, grew to be a scholar and poet.

Wisdom & Quotes

• When I was one-and-twenty

I heard a wise man say,
Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away.
- A Shropshire Lad

• Malt does more than Milton can

To justify God's ways to man.
- A Shropshire Lad

• I, a stranger and afraid

In a world I never made.
- Last Poems

Henri Bergson