But really the closest contemporary heir of Housman is … Robert Creeley!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I’m with Wendy Cope when she says… : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

The sentence is: "I called Housman earlier some sort of failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange] Reference

Not many people would call Housman's emotional life a successful one, but he had his own personality to make the best or the worst of.    From Wordnik.com.  [On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange] Reference

In the first place, Housman is a ‘country’ poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside the Whale] Reference

For each of these devices Housman furnishes convincing parallels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

Housman was simultaneously a gratified man and a disappointed one.    From Wordnik.com.  [On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange] Reference

The Huntsman: AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad skip to main | skip to sidebar.    From Wordnik.com.  [AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad] Reference

The Astronomica is of bulk sufficient to form the monument Housman desired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housman at Work & Play] Reference

Housman 836-39 gives many instances where metre demonstrates an accusative in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

"This, of course, isn't true," asserts Mr. Mendelsohn: "Housman was hugely popular.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Invention of Love': An Exchange] Reference

From Victorian Worcestershire, A. E Housman on the attraction and repulsion of the warrior.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 07, 2004] Reference

Talk about "thumping truisms": This is the kind of sentimental thinking that Housman reviled.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Invention of Love': An Exchange] Reference

Housman was full of years (in his seventies), of honor, and of wickedly brilliant perversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Words & Music] Reference

I do not disdain Housman for his devotion to the recovery of ancient texts, I revere him for it.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Invention of Love': An Exchange] Reference

Perhaps there is even something of a music hall backdrop to some of those by Kipling and Housman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

And among them so few were content, as Housman was, to publish two thin volumes and call it quits.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Yeats to Yeats] Reference

Profesor Knox regrets that Housman edited Manilius instead of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housman at Work & Play] Reference

Once, when we talked about the Spin, Diane had quoted a little rhyme by the English poet A.E. Housman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis is a little-known Arthurian fantasy novel from 1905, by Clemence Housman.    From Wordnik.com.  [January « 2010 « Maria Lectrix] Reference

I quoted the Housman poem she had taught me long ago: The infant child is not aware/He has been eaten by the bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

Re Ewart – ah, but notice I said to proceed to him from Wendy Cope, post-Housman – not to go directly from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [I’m with Wendy Cope when she says… : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Seven houses owned by Fred Housman, including the one he lived in, on the Lockport road, were swept away completely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference

I didn't begrudge Billy the money — after all, he was an athlete who died young, just like in the A.E. Housman poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stimulating the Dead] Reference

Audio Fiction: @Marie Lectrix: Parts four and five (the conclusion) of "The Were-Wolf" by Clemence Housman, read by Maureen O'Brien.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Fiction and Stuff for 8/2/09] Reference

Housman remarked at one point on Manilius's "eminent aptitude for doing sums in verse, which is the brightest feature of his genius.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Housman at Work & Play] Reference

The accomplished versification permitted the great metrist in Housman to establish the canons of Manilius's practice, and to use them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housman at Work & Play] Reference

A.E. Housman wrote, "That is the land of lost content,/I see it shining plain,/The happy highways where I went/And cannot come again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sisters Mortland by Sally Beauman: Questions] Reference

I thought again of the Housman poem Diane had taught me so many years ago: The infant child is not aware/He has been eaten by the bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

Poets figure as strongly in Dewey's reading list as philosophers, especially Coleridge, Housman, Keats, Poe, Shakespeare and Wordsworth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference

When asked why he'd brought Wilde into a play about Housman, he replied that it was for contrast's sake; note the nature of the contrast.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Invention of Love': An Exchange] Reference