Alfred Edward Housman foi um poeta inglês.
Em suas obras líricas aliou a pureza do classicismo a uma inspiração romântica, triste e quase fatalista. Trabalhou por dez anos no escritório de brevés britânico. A seguir, foi professor de latim no University College, em Londres, passando depois para a Universidade de Cambridge.
Publicou uma grandiosa edição de Manílio e textos críticos de Juvenal e de Lucain. Sua primeira coletânea de versos tornou-o famoso: Um garoto de Shrospshire, de 1896. Escreveu também Últimos poemas, em 1922, Ainda alguns poemas e dois ensaios, dos quais o mais interessante e discutido foi O nome e a natureza da poesia, de 1933.
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“O malte fez mais do que Milton poderia para justificar os caminhos de Deus para o homem”
And malt does more than Milton can. To justify God's ways to man
Collected poems - Página 88, de Alfred Edward Housman - Publicado por Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965 - 254 páginas
No. 19, st. 2.
Fonte: More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
“The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
The stroke of midnight ceases,
And I lie down alone.”
No. 11, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
No. 10, st. 2.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
No. 9, st. 1.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
“Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.”
No. 6, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”
No. 2, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
"Letter to Gilbert Murray" (April 23, 1900).
Saturae of Juvenal (Cambridge University Press, [1905] 1931) p. xi.
No. 9, st. 7.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
“His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.”
No. 14, st. 3.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
From a list of insults drafted by A E Housman, and posthumously published in Laurence Housman's A. E. H. (1937) pp. 89-90. The name was left blank in the original, but was intended to be filled in and used when a suitable subject should turn up.
"Letter to Neilson Abeel" (October 4, 1935).
"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
No. 24 ("Epithalamium"), st. 3.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
“I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.”
A remark made in conversation, according to Grant Richards Housman 1897-1936 (1942) p. 100.
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