Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
The great love of Housman's life was his college roommate, Moses Jackson, who did not return his affection. Sad. (Source.)
Although he's famous as a poet, Housman's day job was being a college professor. He was a professor of Latin at Cambridge for many years. (Source.)
George Orwell, the author of 1984, was a big Housman fan when he was young. (Source.)