In his spare time, he studied in the British Museum, and collected an impressive body of textual criticism. He made an early impression on his field with an edition of Manilius, a lengthily work by a first-century Roman astronomerĪfter graduating, Housman spent the next eleven years working as a clerk in the Patent Office. Housman became deeply interested in redaction - a form of editing where multiple classical works are corrected and combined into a whole. The oldest of seven children, he won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he made the acquaintance of Oscar Wilde, John Ruskin, and other personalities of the day. Alfred Edward Housman was born in Bromsgrove, England in 1859.
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