Ebook {Epub PDF} A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman

 · Alfred Edward (A.E.) Housman was a noted classical scholar and a poet. To the wider public he is best known for his poem "A Shropshire Lad" (), while to his fellow classicists it is his critical editing of Manilius that has earned him enduring fame.4/5. At first glance, it can be a major surprise that the author of the enormously popular poetry collection A Shropshire Lad was a classical scholar by the name of A.E. Housman. Alfred Edward Housman was born in Worcestershire, England, and he was profoundly affected by his mother’s death when he was. At first glance, it can be a major surprise that the author of the enormously popular poetry collection A Shropshire Lad was a classical scholar by the name of A.E. Housman. Alfred Edward Housman was born in Worcestershire, England, and he was profoundly affected by.

A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman. 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. ― A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad. tags: love, rejection. 92 likes. Like "Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.". English Journeys a Shropshire Lad by Housman, A E and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru

Alfred Edward (A.E.) Housman was a noted classical scholar and a poet. To the wider public he is best known for his poem "A Shropshire Lad" (), while to his fellow classicists it is his critical editing of Manilius that has earned him enduring fame. A SHROPSHIRE LAD. by A.E. Housman. Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker. Published by Folio Society. Circa. Fine condition. Grey cloth spine with gilt title, cream pictorial boards. B/w engravings. 90 numbered pages. Still in original shrinkwrap! This copy would make a wonderful gift. Stock no. A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers.