Description

A Shropshire Lad by A E Housman

A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems, some of the better-known poems in the book are “To an Athlete Dying Young”, “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now”, “The Lent Lily” and “When I Was One-and-Twenty”.

Set in a semi-imaginary, pastoral version of Shropshire, it explores the fleeting nature of youth, the fragility of life, unrequited love, human helplessness, mourning, and the grim realities of war. Gained massive popularity among soldiers during the Second Boer War and World War I, with pocket-sized editions often carried into the trenches.

Features;

• Publisher Folio Society New Reprint, London; 2014
• Quarter Bound Green Cloth with Illustrated Paper Sides Hardback, 91 pp
• With Wood Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker
• Size 220 x 145mm, 550g

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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