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Housman Country: Into the Heart of England
Peter Parker
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Description for Housman Country: Into the Heart of England
Paperback. A thoughtful and fascinating portrait of England, told through the story of A. E. Housman and his much-loved poetry collection, A Shropshire Lad. Num Pages: 624 pages, b/w pics. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMP; 2AB; DSC; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic? In March 1896 a small volume of sixty-three poems was published by the small British firm of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd in an edition of 500 copies, priced at half-a-crown each. The ... Read more
Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic? In March 1896 a small volume of sixty-three poems was published by the small British firm of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd in an edition of 500 copies, priced at half-a-crown each. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349140681
SKU
V9780349140681
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Peter Parker
Peter Parker was born in Herefordshire and educated in the Malverns, Dorset and London. He is the author of The Last Veteran, The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos and biographies of J.R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood . He was an associate editor of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and writes about books and gardening for ... Read more
Reviews for Housman Country: Into the Heart of England
Peter Parker's beautiful Housman Country tells you everything you want to know about the life and influence of England's most satirised but inimitable poets
Evening Standard
This is really three books for the price of one: a partial biography of Housman; the biography of his most famous book; and the whole of A Shropshire Lad itself, reprinted for ... Read more
Evening Standard
This is really three books for the price of one: a partial biography of Housman; the biography of his most famous book; and the whole of A Shropshire Lad itself, reprinted for ... Read more