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A Shropshire Lad
Author: A.E. Housman
Narrator: Samuel West
Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 05/31/2011
Category: Poetry - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Synopsis
In A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman recreates a nostalgic world of lost love, lost youth, thwarted friendships, unfaithful girls, male bonding, untimely death and the uncertain glories of being a soldier. The poems deal with the exuberance of youth – its aspirations and disappointments, its naive certainties and tragic mistakes. Though written in 1895, it struck a chord with the generation of young men who fought in World War I. It was said that every ‘Tommy’ had a copy in his knapsack. It has never been out of print.