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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
A. E. Housman
Born: March 26, 1859
Died: April 30, 1936 (aged 77)
Bio: Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
Known for:
- A Shropshire Lad (1887)
- Last Poems (1922)
- The name and nature of poetry (1933)
- Collected Poems and Selected Prose
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