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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems - The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (Paperback, Revised)
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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems - The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (Paperback, Revised)
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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 poignant sense of loss and sadness. Their scope is wide -
ranging from religious doubt and doomed love to intense nostalgia
for the countryside and patriotic celebration of the life of the
soldier - and they are made all the more memorable by their
distinctive diction and perfectly modulated rhythm and sound. This
volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime,
A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922), along with the
posthumous selections More Poems and Additional Poems, and three
translations of extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
that display his mastery of Classical literature. This edition has
been revised by Archie Burnett and includes updated notes on the
text and indexes of first lines and titles. In his afterword, John
Sparrow discusses Housman's methods of writing and melancholic
temperament. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as
A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best
known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. If you enjoyed A
Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, you might like John Clare's
Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics.
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