Comprised of 63 short poems, this captivating collection lingers on themes of youthfulness and mortality, taking as its setting an idyllic Shropshire countryside. In strikingly simple verses--including the famous stanzas known as "When I was one-and-twenty"--Housman creates beautifully nostalgic and wistful works haunted by the transience of youth in a society in which young men are sent to war and to work.
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Comprised of 63 short poems, this captivating collection lingers on themes of youthfulness and mortality, taking as its setting an idyllic Shropshire countryside. In strikingly simple verses--including the famous stanzas known as "When I was one-and-twenty"--Housman creates beautifully nostalgic and wistful works haunted by the transience of youth in a society in which young men are sent to war and to work.
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Add this copy of A Shropshire Lad to cart. $24.10, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by Hersperus Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 200grams, ISBN: 9781843911777.
Houseman's work remains the indispensable guide to the personal growth of a young man in the world that existed before the tragedy of the First World War.
This growth is seen to have its vital parallel in the relentless onward march of the seasons, with their peculiar and inexorable duties and demands on those who worked the soil.
"Life goes on" is the fierce motto of the work; perhaps this message is most starkly manifest in "Is My Team A-Ploughing?": the subject of the poem is the spirit of the recently-dead young man whose plough-team must continue tilling the ground if people are to eat, but, more brutally, his spirit is compelled to witness to his bereaved beloved lying down - not to weep but to make love - in the necessary process of building a new life for herself.
