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HOUSMAN, LAURENCE (1867– )

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HOUSMAN, LAURENCE (1867– ) , See also:English writer and artist, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:June 1867. Having studied at See also:South See also:Kensington, he first made a reputation as a See also:book-illustrator. Some of his best pictorial See also:work may be seen in the See also:editions of See also:Meredith's Jump to See also:Glory Jane (1892), the Weird Tales of See also:Jonas See also:Lie (1892), Jane See also:Barlow's See also:Land of Elfintoun (1894), See also:Christina See also:Rossetti's Goblin See also:Market (1893), Werewolf (1896), by his See also:sister, See also:Miss Clemence Housman, See also:Shelley's Sensitive Plant (1898), and his own See also:Farm in Fairyland (1894). His designs were engraved on See also:wood by Miss Housman. His volumes of See also:verse include See also:Green See also:Arras (1896), See also:Rue (1899), See also:Spikenard (1898) and Mendicant Rhymes (1906); and the See also:mysticism which characterizes the devotional poems in Spikenard recurs in his See also:half-allegorical tales, All See also:Fellows (1896), The See also:Blue See also:Moon (1904) and The Cloak of Friendship (1906). His nativity See also:play, See also:Bethlehem, was presented in the See also:Great See also:Hall of See also:London University at South Kensington for a See also:week in See also:December 1902. In 1900 he published anonymously An Englishwoman's Love Letters, which created a temporary sensation; and he followed this See also:essay in popular fiction by the novels A See also:Modern See also:Antaeus Nor) and Sabrina See also:Warham (1904). On the 23rd of December 1904 his fantastic play Prunella, written in collaboration with Mr See also:Granville See also:Barker, was produced at the See also:Court See also:Theatre. His See also:brother, See also:Alfred See also:Edward Housman (b. 1859), an accomplished See also:scholar, See also:professor of Latin at University See also:College, London, is known as a poet by his striking lyrical See also:series, A See also:Shropshire Lad (1896).

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