A Shropshire Lad
This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.
Authoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English poetry. Housman probes, with poignant beauty, the nature of friendship, the passing of youth, the vanity of dreams, other themes.
The collection was published in 1896. Housman originally titled the book The Poems of Terence Hearsay, referring to a character there, but changed the title at the suggestion of his publisher.
Yet their simple language, strong musical cadences and direct emotional appeal have won these works a wide audience among general readers as well.
page 13 4 let me 23 12 28 7 24 21 8 20 16 31 41 37 15 Oh fair enough are sky and plain Oh see how thick the goldcup ... a week the winter thorough Wake : the silver dusk returning Westward on the high - hilled plains When I came last to ...
The collection was published in 1896. Housman originally titled the book The Poems of Terence Hearsay, referring to a character there, but changed the title at the suggestion of his publisher.
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 ...
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Yet despite Kipling's vigor, the spirit of the age was best represented by The Yellow Book and Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712).
The method of the poems in A Shropshire Lad illustrates better than any theory how poetry may assume the attire of reality, and yet in speech of the simplest, become in spirit the sheer quality of loveliness.