A Shropshire lad

The Resource A Shropshire lad

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A Shropshire lad

Statement of responsibility

A. E. Housman

Language

eng

Summary

Published at the author's own expense in 1896, after rejection from publishers, the collection contains a cycle of 63 poems. Despite exploring themes of lost love, obsession, pessimism and death, the poems touched English readers and became a bestseller during the Second Boer War and World War I. The collection, set in a half-imagined pastoral Shropshire, includes the well-known poems When I Was One-and-Twenty, To an Athlete Dying Young and Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

PerformerNote

Read by Samuel West

Target audience

adult

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not applicable

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A Shropshire lad

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A Shropshire lad

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The work A Shropshire lad represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.