The landscape that moves me most in all the world is that of Shropshire and Herefordshire in England and the adjacent Welsh border country. I do not mean by this that it is the most beautiful ...

"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough, / And stands about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide...." ...

It would be an arrogant spirit indeed who, knowing Mr. Housman’s poems, should indulge too strong a sense of possessorship in Shropshire. For, however much the stranger may love that quiet, unspoiled ...

For any reader or writer of poetry with a formalist bent, A.E. Housman (1859–1936) is the gold standard of modern verse. Like Philip Larkin, Housman (whose birthday is March 26) can be grim, sardonic, ...

This week’s headline is the title of an A.E. Housman poem in which the cynical author proclaims: “Malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.” Of course, Housman being Housman, the ...

There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, / To see the rate you drink your beer. With those words, poet AE Housman begins his celebrated Poem LXII from his famous ...