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A Shropshire Lad
A.E. Housman
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A Shropshire Lad
A.E. Housman; Photographs by John Hayward
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Authoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English
poetry -- 63 poems on the nature of friendship, the passing of
youth, the vanity of dreams, other human concerns. Long prized by
literary scholars for their perfection of form and feeling, and
loved by generations of readers for simplicity, sensitivity, direct
emotional appeal.
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.
A Shropshire Lad was first published, at Housman's own expense, in
1896 after several publishers had turned it down. At first the book
sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War, Housman's nostalgic
depiction of rural life, the book became a bestseller The main
theme of ""A Shropshire Lad"" is mortality, and advice about how we
live our lives since death can come in anytime.
This volume constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman’s verse as it was established in 1939, three years after his death. In contains A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, the Additional Poems, and the three translations from A.W. Pollard’s anthology, Odes from the Greek Dramatists.
Evocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred
Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three
poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary
pastoral Shropshire, Housman's verse considers the helplessness of
man, the fragility of life and the terrible effects of war, against
the background of an achingly beautiful countryside. Inspirational
for generations of readers, A Shropshire Lad, with its sweeping
themes of youth and love, has found its way into the canon of
English folksong and has been set to music by composers George
Butterworth, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams. This
beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of A. E. Housman's
A Shropshire Lad features the superb wood engravings of the
Vorticist artist and illustrator Agnes Miller Parker, and is
accompanied by an afterword by Dr David Butterfield, Editor of the
Housman Society Journal. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the
Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift
editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's
Library are books to love and treasure.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet
of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and
critical reactions they express in their introductions, the
selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to some of
the greatest poets in history.
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound
editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most
famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by
the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these
slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry
lovers. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at A. E.
Housman's own expense. The collection of lyrical poems became
hugely successful following the Second Boer War and World War I,
with themes such as nostalgia for one's home and the patriotic
celebration of the life of the solider striking a chord with
English readers. This collection contains Housman's greatest works,
demonstrating the lyrical precision and emotional depth of his
writing. It includes 'To an Athlete Dying Young', a lyrical elegy
to a life lost at its prime and 'When I was One-and-Twenty', a love
poem on the ignorance of youth.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the
classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer
them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so
that everyone can enjoy them.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
1922. English poet and scholar, whose verse would influence later
poets, although only two slim volumes appeared during his lifetime,
this being one of them. Partial Contents: Beyond the moor and
mountain crest; Her strong enchantments failing; In valleys green
and still; Could man be drunk for ever; The night my father got me;
The sigh that heaves the grasses; Onward led the road again; and
When lads were home from labour.
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