Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. A.E. HOUSMAN: A MAN OF LOST CONTENT will look at this enigmatic person, our greatest classicist who penned some of the loveliest poetry ever written. Despite the relative paucity of his poetic output--his collection, A Shropshire Lad, has never been out of print. He was offered the Poet Laureatship and the Order of Merit, but declined both. Housman could be kind and unkind, friendly and rude, gregarious and painfully...