A.E.Housman Cherry Tree - St.Laurence's Churchyard, College Street, Ludlow, Shropshire. SY8 1AN
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greysman
N 52° 22.081 W 002° 43.150
30U E 519120 N 5802008
A Cherry Tree planted in memory of the Shropshire poet.
Waymark Code: WMZ94E
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/02/2018
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Alfred Edward Housman was born on the 26th March, 1859, at Fockbury in Worcestershire. He died on the 30th April 30, 1936, at Cambridge.
His most well known work is probably 'A Shropshire Lad', a collection of 63 poems published in 1896. From 'Encyclopedia Britannica:- "Housman’s lyrics express a Romantic pessimism in a clear, direct style. The poems of Heinrich Heine, the songs of William Shakespeare, and Scottish border ballads were Housman’s models, from which he learned to express emotion yet keep it at a certain distance. He assumed in his lyrics the persona of a farm labourer, and he set the poems in Shropshire, a West Midlands English county he had not yet visited when he began writing the poems. Among the most familiar of the poems are “To an Athlete Dying Young,” “With Rue My Heart Is Laden,” and “When I Was One and Twenty.”
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