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Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

Description

poet and classical scholar, probable contributor to MP (1875)

Biography

Then a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, he is likely to be the A. E. Housman who won the Spider competition in MP (November 1875) for the best translation of Goethe's 'Fischer'.