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Probably no poetry in modern times has had as much influence on the literary world as A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. As the New York Times said, "Housman has miniatured man's fate to the last twist of the knife and still he has made it bearable with the demonstration that truth and beauty go with it." This edition contains commissioned art works by Randolph Brown, famous Boston artist at the turn of the century; it also includes an Introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite.
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"Born in 1859 in the village of Fockbury in Worcestershire, Alfred Edward Housman was the eldest of seven children. He was educated at Bromsgrove School and later read Classics at St. John's College, Oxford. His poem A Shropshire Lad was published in 1896. After a period as a Clerk in the Patent Office in London he returned to academia becoming Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. He died in 1936 and his ashes are interred in the shadow of the walls of St Laurence's church, Ludlow."
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Housman is a high-water mark of British lyric poetry, and this fine production captures perfectly his strong, melodic beat and decisive rhyme, and his wonderful way with words. Samuel West's cultivated Midlands accent may not be specifically Shropshire, but his voice and reading are true to Housman who was not, after all, some rough Shropshire lad himself but an Oxford don. His Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now and To an Athlete Dying Young are beautifully rendered here. West, you feel, reads poetry as it should be read confidently, with ease and conviction, as if all the world spoke in meter and rhyme. --D.A.W., AudioFile Magazine
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- PublisherBranden Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0828314551
- ISBN 13 9780828314558
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages62
- EditorAdolph Caso
- IllustratorJ. Randolph Brown
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