Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and classical scholar. Brother of Laurence Housman. Educated at St. John’s College, Oxford. Entered the civil service while also studying in classical literature in the British Museum Reading Room, and published periodical essays on the classics and textual criticism. Became chair of Latin in University College, London, in 1892. moving to the chair of Latin in Cambridge University in 1911. Author of A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems (1922), and More Poems (1936). Biographical information: ODNB. (AC)