Poetry of A. E. Housman

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A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad presents A. E. Housman's reflections on love, death, and the eternal uncertainty of the human condition.Placed in an idealized world of rural England, unpolluted by the taint of the city, but still a place where love can fail, evil...

Housman himself knew that his output as a poet would not be large.In his preface to this volume, he wrote, rather touchingly:"I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more."He...

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A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad presents A. E. Housman's reflections on love, death, and the eternal uncertainty of the human condition.Placed in an idealized world of rural England, unpolluted by the taint of the city, but still a place where love can fail, evil...

Housman himself knew that his output as a poet would not be large.In his preface to this volume, he wrote, rather touchingly:"I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more."He...