A Shropshire Lad (Annotated)

by Alfred Edward Housman

Overview

A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English author Alfred Edward Housman. Some of the better-known poems in the book are "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now", "The Lent Lily" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty".

This edition has been formatted for your NOOK, with an active table of contents. This book has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, reception, themes, style, parodies, legacy, references in popular culture, biographical and bibliographical information.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151637244
Publisher:	Bronson Tweed Publishing
Publication date:	03/29/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	83 KB

About the Author

Alfred Edward Housman, usually referred to as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside. Their beauty, simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell) both before and after the First World War. Through their song-settings, the poems became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.