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A. E. Housman: Poems Selected by Alan Hollinghurst by A. E. Housman
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to some of the greatest poets in history.
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics: Poetry First Editions
A series of verses set in the half-imaginary Shropshire, "A Shropshire Lad" is A.E. Housman's most famous collection of poetry. Initially self-published, with little profit, it became hugely popular during the World War I.
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
A Shropshire Lad And Other Poems by A.E. Housman
Category: Classic Fiction
A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and "A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems" is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This "Penguin Classics" edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions by Archie Burnett and an afterword by Joh ...Show more
A Shropshire Lad (Macmillan Collector's Library) by A. E. Housman
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
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 ...Show more
English Journeys: A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Category: Poetry | Series: English Journeys
This magical and poignant evocation of coming of age in the countryside describes lovers in secluded lanes, cricket and church bells, cherry trees hung with snow and woods full of bluebells. Yet in "A Shropshire Lad" the fields and hills are also places of loss and sorrow, where men die young or are sen ...Show more
Shropshire Lad, A by A.E. Housman
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift S.
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 Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, University of Kent at Canterbury. Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant ...Show more
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