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* ''Series/RogueHeroes''. Paddy Mayne is introduced lying in a military prison cell quoting from the ''A Shropshire Lad'' poem "When I watch the living meet".

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* ''Series/RogueHeroes''.''Series/SASRogueHeroes''. Paddy Mayne is introduced lying in a military prison cell quoting from the ''A Shropshire Lad'' poem "When I watch the living meet".
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* ''Series/RogueHeroes''. Paddy Mayne is introduced lying in a military prison cell quoting from ''A Shropshire Lad''.

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* ''Series/RogueHeroes''. Paddy Mayne is introduced lying in a military prison cell quoting from the ''A Shropshire Lad''.Lad'' poem "When I watch the living meet".
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* ''Series/RogueHeroes''. Paddy Mayne is introduced lying in a military prison cell quoting from ''A Shropshire Lad''.
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* Literature/LordPeterWimsey series: In ''Strong Poison'', Lord Peter quotes part of Poem LXII from ''A Shropshire Lad'' (the one about Mithridates and AcquiredPoisonImmunity) after realising that the murderer in his current case used AcquiredPoisonImmunity to avoid suspicion.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In [[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy "Whom Gods Destroy"]] Marta recites a poem she claims to have written that morning. A minute into her performance, Garth interrupts and points out that it was actually written by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. She admits that he wrote it first and says she wrote it again that morning. Later in the episode, she recites another poem; it's equally unoriginal, being the first stanza of one of AEHousman's ''Last Poems''.

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In [[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy "Whom Gods Destroy"]] Marta recites a poem she claims to have written that morning. A minute into her performance, Garth interrupts and points out that it was actually written by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. She admits that he wrote it first and says she wrote it again that morning. Later in the episode, she recites another poem; it's equally unoriginal, being the first stanza of one of AEHousman's Creator/AEHousman's ''Last Poems''.
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* ''{{Film/Walkabout}}'': At the end, a narrator reads [[http://web.archive.org/web/20021104035233/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=HouShro.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=41&division=div1 Poem 40]] from Creator/AEHousman's ''A Shropshire Lad'', which is about remembering a pastoral scene from one's youth that one can't return to.

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* ''Literature/ModestyBlaise'': The title "A Taste for Death" is a quote from a short poem by Creator/AEHousman, which Delicata quotes in a TitleDrop moment.

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* ''{{Series/Endeavour}}'': In "Neverland", when Thursday suggests he'll probably die as a policeman rather than retire, Morse quotes the last verse of "[[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/housman.html#MPxvi How clear, how lovely bright]]" -- the same verse he quoted in "The Remorseful Day" shortly before his own death in harness in ''Series/InspectorMorse''.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In [[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy "Whom Gods Destroy"]] Marta recites a poem she claims to have written that morning. A minute into her performance, Garth interrupts and points out that it was actually written by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. She admits that he wrote it first and says she wrote it again that morning. Later in the episode, she recites another poem; it's equally unoriginal, being the first stanza of one of AEHousman's ''Last Poems''.

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* Music/TheKinks: ''Music/TheKinksAreTheVillageGreenPreservationSociety'' is a loosely connected ConceptAlbum that grew out of Ray Davies' reading of Georgian poets like Creator/AEHousman and memories of his own life.

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* ''Theatre/ShirleyValentine'': Shirley's son is a self-styled poet whose work seems to be mostly about taking shots at the literary establishment: "I hate the fuckin' [[Creator/WilliamWordsworth daffodils]],/I hate the [[Creator/AEHousman blue remembered hills]]."

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