A Shropshire Lad
Author | : Alfred Edward Housman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alfred Edward Housman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A.E. Housman |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-07-29 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141919159 |
A. E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, whose poems conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss. They are expressed in simple rhythms, yet show a fine ear for the subtleties of metre and alliteration. His scope is wide - ranging from religious doubt to intense nostalgia for the countryside. This volume brings together '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.
Author | : Alfred Edward Housman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780571207053 |
In this series a contemporary poet selects and introduces another poet of a different generation whom they have particularly admired. This selection of A.E. Housman poems are selected by Alan Hollinghurst.
Author | : Alfred Edward Housman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Parker |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0374709351 |
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English coun - tryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a century ago, and the book has never been out of print. In Housman Country, Peter Parker explores the lives of A. E. Housman and his most famous book, and in doing so shows how A Shropshire Lad has permeated English life and culture since its publication. The poems were taken to war by soldiers who wanted to carry England in their pockets, were adapted by composers trying to create a new kind of English music, and have influ - enced poetry, fiction, music, and drama right up to the present day. Everyone has a personal “land of lost content” with “blue remembered hills,” and Housman has been a tangible and far-reaching presence in a startling range of work, from the war poets and Ralph Vaughan Williams to Inspector Morse and Morrissey. Housman Country is a vivid exploration of England and Englishness, in which Parker maps out terrain that is as historical and emotional as it is topographical.
Author | : A. E. Housman |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1509848835 |
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.
Author | : Alfred E Housman |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2024-03-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
"A Shropshire Lad" is a celebrated collection of lyrical poems penned by A. E. Housman, an English classical scholar and poet. Published in 1896, these verses are marked by a lyrical and musical quality, expressing sentiments of melancholy, nostalgia, and reflection. The poems draw on rural and pastoral imagery, painting vivid pictures of the Shropshire landscapes. Central themes revolve around the fleeting nature of youth and the inevitability of mortality. Housman's background as a classical scholar is evident in the precise structure and language of the poetry. "A Shropshire Lad" has made a lasting impact on English literature, influencing modern poetry with its timeless themes and craftsmanship. For those drawn to emotionally resonant verse that captures the essence of late 19th-century England, this collection remains a significant and influential work, widely available in bookstores, libraries, and online platforms dedicated to classic literature.
Author | : Alfred Edward Housman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
A collection of sixty-three short poems by the English poet showing a young lad's reactions to love, beauty, friendship, and death as he approaches manhood.
Author | : A. E. Housman |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2020-05-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1528789784 |
“Last Poems” is a 1936 collection of poetry by A. E. Housman. The poems include: “The West”, “Llic Jacet”, “Grenadier”, “Lancer”, “The Deserter”, “The Culprit”, “Eight O'Clock”, “Spring Morning”, “Astronomy”, “Epithalamium”, “The Oracles”, “Sinner's Rue”, “Hell's Gate”, “Revolution”, “Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries”, and “Fancy's Knell”. Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936), also known as A. E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar considered to be one of the greatest scholars who ever lived. A fantastic collection of classic poetry by a master of the form. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with a chapter from “Twenty-Four Portraits” by William Rothenstein.
Author | : Alfred Edward Housman |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9781461190295 |
Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shorpshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were a wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in distinctive imagery which appealed strongly to many readers, writers and music composers. After several publishers had turned it down, he published it at his own expense in 1896. The volume surprised both his colleagues and students. At first selling slowly, it rapidly became a lasting success, whose appeal has since struck a powerful chord with poetry readers. A Shropshire Lad has never been out-of-print and this volume also includes his later poems, which are well worth reading as well.