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Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
A.E Housman
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Description for Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
paperback. 'What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?' In this collection, the author's poems, including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty", conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness. Editor(s): Laird, Nick. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216.
A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions by Archie Burnett and an afterword by John Sparrow.
'What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?'
In this collection, A. E. Housman's poems, including'To an Athlete Dying Young', 'Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now' and 'When I Was One-and-Twenty', conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140424744
SKU
9780140424744
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About A.E Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 - April 30, 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Nick Laird was born in 1975 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He was a scholar at Cambridge University and spent a year at Harvard as a ... Read more
Reviews for Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
"Housman’s singular vision seized hold of the English imagination, inspiring not just a literary following but a generation of composers, like George Butterworth and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who sought to do musically what Housman had done with verse: to create a new and authentically English kind of song." —New Yorker