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Alfred Edward Housman (/ ˈ h aʊ s m ən /; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
The poet and scholar A. E. Housman challenged such reactive applications in 1922, in the provocatively titled article "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". [8] On the other hand, taken as an axiom, the principle lectio difficilior produces an eclectic text, rather than one based on a history of manuscript transmission.
Keith Jebb is a contemporary English poet and critic. He attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and is the current Head Lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton. He is also the author of A. E. Housman (Seren Press), a work commended by Harold Bloom in the introduction to his A. E. Housman.
Housman chose as his symbol of transient beauty a subject close to his heart. The gardens of Housman's childhood home boasted a locally famous cherry tree; for several years in the 1890s he recorded in his diary the flowering of cherry trees; and in his latter years he was responsible for the planting of an avenue of cherry trees at his college ...
Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks FBA (born 18 September 1933) [1] is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University (US), co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (UK) from 2004 to 2009.
"The Parable of the Sunfish" is an anecdote with which Ezra Pound opens ABC of Reading, a 1934 work of literary criticism. Pound uses this anecdote to emphasize an empirical approach for learning about art, in contrast to relying on commentary rooted in abstraction.
According to art historian Thomas E. Crow, "When Diderot took up art criticism it was on the heels of the first generation of professional writers who made it their business to offer descriptions and judgments of contemporary painting and sculpture. The demand for such commentary was a product of the similarly novel institution of regular, free ...
Elinore Blaisdell (October 15, 1900 – 1994) was an American illustrator known for her work on Bulfinch's Mythology (1947), Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (1932).