Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Revised edition by ARCHIE BURNETT with an afterword by JOHN LAIRD 'What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?' In this collection, the author's poems, including 'To an Athlete Dying Young', 'Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now' and 'When I Was One-and-Twenty', conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness. This edition has been revised by Archie Burnett and includes updated notes on the text and indexes of first lines and titles. This volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime, A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922), along with the posthumous selections More Poems and Additional Poems, and three translations of extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides that display his mastery of Classical literature. Their scope is wide - ranging from religious doubt and doomed love to intense nostalgia for the countryside and patriotic celebration of the life of the soldier - and they are made all the more memorable by their distinctive diction and perfectly modulated rhythm and sound. His poems conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness. Housman (1859 - 1936) was one of the best-loved poets of his day. Housman’s Poem XXXVI (Poem 36), part of A Shropshire Lad, a cycle of 63 short poems Housman published at his own expense in 1896, captures at once the thrill and the loneliness, the anticipation and uncertainty of the open road.

'All things may end, for all began And truth and singleness of heart Are mortal even as is man' A.

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