Loveliest of Trees Resources

This is so much better than Wikipedia. Seriously, it is.

Here's a much shorter biography of Housman that gives just the important facts.

If you really want to take your love of Housman to another level, this site can help you out.

This site has samples of some of Housman's most famous poems and quotes.

If you're looking for more on the carpe diem thing, you should carpe these poems.

This piece of music is meant to accompany several of the poems in A Shropshire Lad, by an English composer killed during World War I.

Do you enjoy being totally skeeved out? Then check out this weird cartoon of what Housman might have looked like, reading his poem "When I Was One and Twenty."

A woman sings "Loveliest of Trees" as if it were part of an opera.

Here's a second musical take.

Apparently Housman's poems lend themselves really well to opera.

There's our handsome poet as a young man!

Looking pensive Mr. Housman, looking pensive.

A great shot of the wide expanse in Shropshire.

Dig this picture of Housman's home in London.

A.E. Housman's work still very much resonates. Just check out this modern assessment.

Here's all of A Shropshire Lad and then some.

If online bios aren't your thing, pick this bad boy up.