A Shropshire Lad
A. E. Housman, 1896
Sixty-three clipped, singing poems about cherry blossom, lost hometowns, soldiers and the brevity of youth.
A. E. Housman
1859–1936
Housman was a professor of Latin at Cambridge and a formidable textual critic; he edited the Roman poet Manilius and kept his poetry carefully separate from his scholarship.
Feels like melancholy, morality and memory.
What if the landscape of your happiest memories is closed to you now?
Into my heart an air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those?That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,The happy highways where I wentAnd cannot come again. Books by A. E. Housman
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