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Housman Country - Into the Heart of England (Paperback)
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Housman Country - Into the Heart of England (Paperback)
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List price R474
Loot Price R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
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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 author was not a
professional poet, but a thirty-seven-year-old professor of Latin
at University College, London called Alfred Edward Housman who had
been obliged to pay GBP30 towards the cost of publication. Although
slow to sell at first, A Shropshire Lad went on to become one of
the most popular books of poetry ever published and has never been
out of print. As well as being a publishing phenomenon, the book
has had an influence on English culture and notions of what
'England' means, both in England itself and abroad, out of all
proportion to its apparent scope. Housman Country will not only
look at how A Shropshire Lad came to be written and became a
publishing and cultural phenomenon, but will use the poems as a
prism through which to examine England and Englishness. The book
contains a full transcript of A Shropshire lad itself, also making
it a superb present.
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