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A Shropshire lad and last poems

The charms of the poems in A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896, continue to resonate today. Housman's first collection and his signature work, the poems here mix the styles of traditional English ballads and classical verse, and evoke the idyllic English countryside, explore the nature of friendship, bravery, and the passing of youth, among other themes.

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  • "Shropshire lad"@en
  • "Collected poems of A.E. Housman"@en
  • "Collected poems of A.E. Housman"
  • "Last poems"@en
  • "John Constable, English countryside"@en

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  • "The charms of the poems in A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896, continue to resonate today. Housman's first collection and his signature work, the poems here mix the styles of traditional English ballads and classical verse, and evoke the idyllic English countryside, explore the nature of friendship, bravery, and the passing of youth, among other themes."@en
  • "Nostalgic verses in ballad form, reflecting on Shropshire in the nineteenth century."
  • "The method of the poems in A Shropshire Lad illustrates better than any theory how poetry may assume the attire of reality, and yet in speech of the simplest, become in spirit the sheer quality of loveliness. For, in these unobtrusive pages, there is nothing shunned which makes the spectacle of life parade its dark and painful, its ironic and cynical burdens, as well as those images with happy and exquisite aspects. With a broader and deeper background of experience and environment, which by some divine special privilege belongs to the poetic imagination, it is easier to set apart and contrast these opposing words and sympathies in a poet; but here we find them evoked in a restricted locale- an English county-where the rich, cool tranquil landscape gives a solid texture to the human show. What, I think, impresses one, thrills, like ecstatic, half-smothered strains of music, floating from unperceived instruments, in Mr. Housman's poems, is the encounter his spirit constantly endures with life. It is, this encounter, what you feel in the Greeks, and as in the Greeks, it is a spiritual waging of miraculous forces."@en
  • "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."
  • "A collection of sixty-three short poems by the English poet showing a young lad's reactions to love, beauty, friendship, and death as he approaches manhood."
  • "A collection of sixty-three short poems by the English poet showing a young lad's reactions to love, beauty, friendship, and death as he approaches manhood."@en

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  • "Dummies (Publishing)"
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  • "English poetry"@en
  • "Bibliography"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Specimens"
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  • "Poetry"
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  • "Poems"
  • "Pictorial works"
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  • "A Shropshire lad and other poems : The collected poems of A.E. Housman"
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  • "A Shropshire lad; decorations by Edw. A. Wilson"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad ; poems"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad ; and Last poems"@en
  • "A Shropshire Lad : poems"
  • "A Schropshire lad"@en
  • "A Shropshire Lad"
  • "A Shropshire Lad"@en
  • "Shropshire lad : and, Last poems"@en
  • "A Shropshire Lad, By A.E. Housman"@en
  • "Y llanc o sir Amwythig"
  • "A Shropshire lad ; & Last poems"@en
  • "A shropshire lad and other poems : the collected poems of A.E. Housman"
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  • "A Shropshire lad"@en
  • "The Shropshire lad"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad; poems. With decorations in color by Edward A. Wilson & an appendix of bibliographic material gathered by Carl J. Weber"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad, and Last poems"
  • "A Shropshire lad [microform]"
  • "A Shropshire lad : with notes and a bibliography by Carl J. Weber"
  • "Y llanc o Sir Amwythig, sef A Shropshire lad (A.E. Housman)"
  • "A Shropshire lad ; decorations by Aldren Watson"
  • "A Shropshire lad poems"@en
  • "Shropshire Lad"@en
  • "Shropshire Lad"
  • "A Shropshire Lad ... With notes and a bibliography by Carl J. Weber. (Jubilee edition.)"@en
  • "A Shropshire Lad ... With notes and a bibliography by Carl J. Weber. (Jubilee edition.)"
  • "A shropshire lad"
  • "A shropshire lad"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad and other poems : the collected poems of A.E. Housman"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad and other poems : the collected poems of A.E. Housman"
  • "A Shropshire lad : With wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker"
  • "SHROPSHIRE LAD AND LAST POEMS"
  • ""A Shropshire lad.""@en
  • "A Shropshire Lad. With Notes and a Bibliography by Carl J. Weber"@en
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  • "A Shropshire Lad. [In verse.]"
  • "A Shropshire Lad. [In verse.]"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad : 1896"
  • "A Shropshire lad : 1896"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad : poems"
  • "The Shropshire Lad ... With wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker"@en
  • "A Shropshire lad, by A. E. Housman"
  • "A Shropshire lad, 1896"

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