A Study Guide for A.E. Housman's "The Loveliest of Trees"
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Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
A. E. Housman
1896
Introduction
Alfred Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad precisely caught the mood of England at the end of the Victorian age. The poem cycle combines a nearly sentimentalized view of youth with a nearly sentimentalized view of death. The second poem in A Shropshire Lad, Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now,
eloquently expresses the brevity of human life and its fragility compared to the beauty of the natural world. Through a complex tapestry of allusion, the poem calls on the reader to experience that beauty before it is too late, and the chance is missed in death. That call is all the more poignant because the circumstances of Housman's life made it impossible to experience the happiness he desired. Behind his back, Housman was sometimes called a maiden aunt, that is, someone who failed in meeting society's expectations, eschewing the personal satisfaction of making a relationship and substituting service to a more extended family. There is an undeniable kernel of truth in the accusation. Housman compensated for any failure in his private life by throwing himself into his work as a professor, becoming one of the most important classical scholars of modern times. A Shropshire Lad is one of the most beloved collections of English poetry.
Author Biography
Housman was born on March 26, 1859, in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England. His father was a solicitor (a lawyer). His younger brother Laurence also became a poet and acted as Housman's literary executor. Housman attended Bromsgrove, an English public school, part of the aristocratic educational system that produced the British Empire's intellectual and cultural elite. While at school, Housman won prizes for his poetry, including his The Death of Socrates.
He won a scholarship to St. John's college, Oxford. By chance he became the roommate of Moses Jackson, a popular athlete who rowed for Oxford and went on to a career as a secondary educator in various parts of the British Empire. Housman fell in love with Jackson, a love that formed the emotional ground of Housman's whole life. Jackson, however, had