Film
- Walkabout: At the end, a narrator reads Poem 40
from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, which is about remembering a pastoral scene from one's youth that one can't return to.
Literature
- Lord Peter Wimsey series: In Strong Poison, Lord Peter quotes part of Poem LXII from A Shropshire Lad (the one about Mithridates and Acquired Poison Immunity) after realising that the murderer in his current case used Acquired Poison Immunity to avoid suspicion.
- Modesty Blaise: The title "A Taste for Death" is a quote from a short poem by A. E. Housman, which Delicata quotes in a Title Drop moment.
Live Action TV
- Endeavour: In "Neverland", when Thursday suggests he'll probably die as a policeman rather than retire, Morse quotes the last verse of "How clear, how lovely bright" — the same verse he quoted in "The Remorseful Day" shortly before his own death in harness in Inspector Morse.
- SAS: Rogue Heroes. Paddy Mayne is introduced lying in a military prison cell quoting from the A Shropshire Lad poem "When I watch the living meet".
- Star Trek: The Original Series: In "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 William Shakespeare. 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 A. E. Housman's Last Poems.
Music
- The Kinks: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is a loosely connected Concept Album that grew out of Ray Davies' reading of Georgian poets like A. E. Housman and memories of his own life.
Theater
- Shirley Valentine: 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' daffodils,/I hate the blue remembered hills."
