A Shropshire Lad
A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad
A. E. Housman · English
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A Shropshire Lad
A. E. Housman · English
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INTRODUCTION The method of the poems in A Shropshire Lad illustrates better than any theory how poetry may assume the attire of reality, and yet in speech of the simplest, become in spirit the sheer quality of loveliness. For, in these unobtrusive pages, there is nothing shunned which makes the spectacle of life parade its dark and painful, its ironic and cynical burdens, as well as those images with happy and exquisite aspects. With a b
A Shropshire Lad
A. E. Housman
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