English Journeys a Shropshire Lad - Softcover

Housman, A E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141190841 ISBN 13: 9780141190846

Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2009

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

A. E. Housman (1859-1936) was born in the English countryside and felt affection for it all his life. He worked as a clerk before becoming an esteemed Latin scholar, but it was the publication of this, his first book of poems, that would bring him lasting fame.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141190841
• ISBN 13: 9780141190846
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 128