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1 | 3 | 0:01:57 | Poem 3 | 1 | 3 | 0:02:25 | Poem 3 |
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1 | 14 | 0:11:14 | Poem 14 | 1 | 14 | 0:13:49 | Poem 14 |
1 | 15 | 0:11:57 | Poem 15 | 1 | 15 | 0:14:45 | Poem 15 |
1 | 16 | 0:12:42 | Poem 16 | 1 | 16 | 0:15:37 | Poem 16 |
1 | 17 | 0:13:02 | Poem 17 | 1 | 17 | 0:16:04 | Poem 17 |
1 | 18 | 0:13:30 | Poem 18 | 1 | 18 | 0:16:39 | Poem 18 |
1 | 19 | 0:13:50 | Poem 19 | 1 | 19 | 0:17:03 | Poem 19 |
1 | 20 | 0:15:07 | Poem 20 | 1 | 20 | 0:18:37 | Poem 20 |
1 | 21 | 0:15:43 | Poem 21 | 1 | 21 | 0:19:23 | Poem 21 |
1 | 22 | 0:16:59 | Poem 22 | 1 | 22 | 0:21:06 | Poem 22 |
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2 | 43 | 0:07:45 | Poem 43 | 2 | 43 | 0:08:55 | Poem 43 |
2 | 44 | 0:09:25 | Poem 44 | 2 | 44 | 0:11:19 | Poem 44 |
2 | 45 | 0:10:36 | Poem 45 | 2 | 45 | 0:12:57 | Poem 45 |
2 | 46 | 0:10:59 | Poem 46 | 2 | 46 | 0:13:28 | Poem 46 |
2 | 47 | 0:11:52 | Poem 47 | 2 | 47 | 0:14:39 | Poem 47 |
2 | 48 | 0:13:01 | Poem 48 | 2 | 48 | 0:16:14 | Poem 48 |
2 | 49 | 0:14:02 | Poem 49 | 2 | 49 | 0:17:42 | Poem 49 |
2 | 50 | 0:14:32 | Poem 50 | 2 | 50 | 0:18:20 | Poem 50 |
2 | 51 | 0:15:28 | Poem 51 | 2 | 51 | 0:19:42 | Poem 51 |
2 | 52 | 0:16:24 | Poem 52 | 2 | 52 | 0:21:06 | Poem 52 |
2 | 53 | 0:16:57 | Poem 53 | 2 | 53 | 0:21:54 | Poem 53 |
2 | 54 | 0:18:13 | Poem 54 | 2 | 54 | 0:23:40 | Poem 54 |
2 | 55 | 0:18:31 | Poem 55 | 2 | 55 | 0:24:09 | Poem 55 |
2 | 56 | 0:19:08 | Poem 56 | 2 | 56 | 0:25:02 | Poem 56 |
2 | 57 | 0:19:45 | Poem 57 | 2 | 57 | 0:25:55 | Poem 57 |
2 | 58 | 0:20:04 | Poem 58 | 2 | 58 | 0:26:21 | Poem 58 |
2 | 59 | 0:20:25 | Poem 59 | 2 | 59 | 0:26:47 | Poem 59 |
2 | 60 | 0:20:56 | Poem 60 | 2 | 60 | 0:27:31 | Poem 60 |
2 | 61 | 0:21:16 | Poem 61 | 2 | 61 | 0:27:57 | Poem 61 |
2 | 62 | 0:22:09 | Poem 62 | 2 | 62 | 0:29:11 | Poem 62 |
2 | 63 | 0:25:05 | Poem 63 | 2 | 63 | 0:32:53 | Poem 63 |
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Artwork
Cover: Bridgenorth, Shropshire, c. 1801, by Paul Sandby
Inset: Cover design by William Hyde for the first illustrated edition of A Shropshire Lad in 1908
Inset: Photo of A. E. Houseman, 1910, by E. O. Hoppe
- Download and read the eBook at Gutenberg.org.
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- Read HowA. E. Housman Invented Englishness by Charles McGrath in the New Yorkermagazine issue of June 26, 2017.
- Read England’sPoet of Melancholy, and Why He Never Went Out of Print by Alan Riding, NewYork Times, July 27, 2017.
- Read Onthe Trail of ‘A Shropshire Lad’ by Mark Ford, The New York Review ofBooks, August 17, 2017.
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is remembered sentimentally by the young men who express a melancholy lament for the lost time of happy youth, the transience and unfairness of love, the disillusionment of shattered ideals, and the grim possibility of an early death in the service of the British Crown. There is no single Shropshire Lad per se, and Shropshire itself, although an actual place, is largely an imagined idyll and literary construct. Published in 1896, the book gradually gained popularity during the Second Boer War and then the First World War, owing to the themes of military action and dying young. Poet A. E. Houseman targeted the poems to a young male readership, and the publisher kept prices low enough to issue small,inexpensive pocket editions which were carried by many British soldiers. All but seven of the poems have been set to music, twelve more than ten times. Composers are naturally attracted to the mix of emotional feeling, lyrical style, and folksy subject matter. W. H. Auden wrote that “no other poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent” of his generation. George Orwell recollected that “these were the poems which I and my contemporaries used to recite to ourselves, over and over.”
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0701236969542 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | A. E. Houseman (1859 - 1936) |
Year | 1896 |
Recording | |
Read by | Version 1 read by Alaaious. Version 2 read by Jon Sindell. |
Length | 2 hours and 4 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo readings |
A Shropshire Lad
- Author: A. E. Houseman
- Product Code: DB-1235
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