Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
A Shropshire Lad - Emotive Verses of Love Loss and Nostalgia - cover

A Shropshire Lad - Emotive Verses of Love Loss and Nostalgia

Alfred Edward Housman

Publisher: Good Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Alfred Edward Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' is a collection of sixty-three lyrical and poignant poems that embody the essence of love, loss, and nostalgia. Written in a simple yet captivating style, Housman's poems touch upon universal themes that resonate with readers of all generations. Set against the backdrop of the English countryside, the poems in this collection are filled with imagery that evokes a sense of longing and melancholy. Housman's use of meter and rhyme creates a musical cadence that enhances the emotional depth of the poems, making them both accessible and profound in their simplicity. 'A Shropshire Lad' is a timeless work that continues to captivate readers with its timeless themes and lyrical beauty. Alfred Edward Housman's own experiences of loss and personal sorrow undoubtedly influenced the emotive nature of his poetry. As a renowned scholar of classics and a deeply introspective individual, Housman's keen understanding of human emotions and his love for the English countryside shine through in 'A Shropshire Lad'. With its themes of love, loss, and the fleeting nature of life, this collection appeals to readers who appreciate poetry that speaks to the soul and resonates with the universal experiences of the human condition.
Available since: 11/20/2019.
Print length: 22 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Humphrey Bogart Box Set - 4 Movies specially adapted for radio & performed by the original film stars - cover

    Humphrey Bogart Box Set - 4...

    Mr Punch

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The Humphrey Bogart Collection is a unique compilation of 3 Oscar winning films adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by Humphrey Bogart and many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast 
  
THE AFRICAN QUEEN with Humphrey Bogart & Greer Garson 
Set in 1915, Rose Sayer, the prim missionary joins Charlie Allnut, the gin drinking river trader as they travel down river to destroy a German gun boat. 
  
CASABLANCA with Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman 
Featuring the classic song ‘As Time Goes By’, tells the story of Rick Blaine, a night club owner in Casablanca and his former lover Ilse Lund, who persuades Rick to help her husband to escape from the Nazis. THE MALTESE FALCON, stars Humphrey Bogart as the private detective Sam Spade in his quest for the priceless black falcon statuette. 
  
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE with Humphrey Bogart & Walter Huston 
Follows the fortunes of three ill-matched gold diggers, who are searching for treasure in Mexico.  
   
These titles are also available as part of the Hollywood Playhouse BOX SET, a collection of 14 Oscar winning ear-movies. 
 
These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves. Hollywood Movie Memories 
 
This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners. Talking Business 
 
A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection. Audio World
    Show book
  • Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency - cover

    Your Emergency Contact Has...

    Chen Chen

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a switchboard operator, picking up and connecting calls. Raucous 2 a.m. prank calls. Whispered-in-a-classroom emergency calls. And sometimes, its pages record the dropping of a call, a failure or refusal to pick up. With irrepressible humor and play, these anarchic poems celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness. Hybrid in form and set in New England, West Texas, and a landlocked province of China, among other places, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency refuses neat categorizations and pat answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how it is we keep finding ways to hold onto one another.
    Show book
  • A Gift of Rivers - cover

    A Gift of Rivers

    Kate Foley

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Kate Foley is a much published and respected poet with many awards to her name. This, her 8th collection is made from meeting, migration and marriage: poems reflecting the journey of one poet and her wife, across linguistic and geographical boundaries - and with Brexit in the offing, it's far from over yet.
    Show book
  • Britannia Waves the Rules (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

    Britannia Waves the Rules (NHB...

    Gareth Farr

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home - to a world they no longer know how to cope with, and a society that doesn't know how to cope with them.
Carl doesn't fit in at home. He doesn't fit in anywhere. When he signs up for the Army, he sees it as a way out of his life in Blackpool. But the Army takes him to Afghanistan. And when he comes home, it's not as a war hero but as a changed man.
Britannia Waves the Rules won a Judges' Award in the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. It premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in May 2014.
'a thrilling onslaught of explosive eloquence... oozes testosterone... often insolently, defiantly funny... its language, sliding in and out of verse, blends hip-hop rhymes with lyrical poeticism' The Times
'gritty, well researched... a real tour de force' WhatsOnStage
'fast, furious and action-packed... filled with rage' Manchester Evening News
    Show book
  • Jezebel - cover

    Jezebel

    Hollywood Stage Productions

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Jezebel starring Loretta Young & Brian Donlevy.
    Show book
  • The Flame - Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings - cover

    The Flame - Poems Notebooks...

    Leonard Cohen

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This program is read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Will Patton, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, and Neela Vaswani.The Flame is the final collection of the seminal musician and poet, which he was determined to complete before his death.Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Fortunately, that time was granted. The Flame is Cohen’s eloquent farewell, a valedictory collection of lyrics and poems that maps his singular creative journey. As noted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s citation, “For six decades, Leonard Cohen revealed his soul to the world through poetry and song—his deep and timeless humanity touching our very core.”In addition to new poems about war, desire, regrets, lamb chops, and hummingbirds, and lyrics from his last three albums, including the chart-topping “You Want It Darker,” The Flame includes carefully selected excerpts from Cohen’s voluminous notebooks, which he kept faithfully over the years. Listeners will hear about the subjects that have always preoccupied Cohen: the dimensions of love, the secret code of existence, and the hope for transcendence in a broken world. In the words of Cohen’s longtime manager and friend, Robert Kory, The Flame “reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire” to the end.
    Show book