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 A Shropshire Lad eBook
8,107 words, approx. 27 pages
 The complete online text of A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman. 
 
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 Biography of Alfred Edward Housman
656 words, approx. 2.2 pages
The English poet and classical scholar Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) is known for the simplicity of his form and language, the narrow range of his subject matter, and the attitude of traditional stoicism which his poems present. The eldest of seven c... summary from source:
Biography of Alfred Edward Housman
7348 words, approx. 24.5 pages
 Alfred Edward Housman was the greatest English classical scholar of his time and a poet of great ability and mastery within the limitations of his chosen themes and form. A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896 at the author's expense, became one of the most... summary from source:
 Biography of A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
6809 words, approx. 22.7 pages
Alfred Edward Housman was the greatest English classical scholar of his time and a poet of great ability and mastery within the limitations of his chosen themes and form. A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896 at the author's expense, became one of the most...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 A Shropshire Lad Information
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A Shropshire Lad (1896) is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward...
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 The Independent - London The New York gal and the Shropshire lad
03/08/1996: 756 words, approx. 3 pages Somebody said to me the other day that the reason Jane Austen was so popular in New York at the moment was not that people there found her nostalgic or quaint or anything, but that all the things Jane Austen's characters were so worried... summary from source:
The Sunday Telegraph London A Shropshire lad issues a warning
01/06/2002: 412 words, approx. 1 pages Thank you for trying to encourage the whole of the middle-class metropolitan South-east to up sticks and make for Shropshire (House and Home, Review, December 30). You do not mention any of the minus factors, with which many incomers have difficulty in coming to...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Peter E. Firchow
8,737 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Firchow discusses the significance of Housman's representations of nature in the pastoral setting of A Shropshire Lad.
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Critical Essay by J. B. Priestley
6,683 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Priestley suggests some reasons why critics have tended to ignore Housman's poetry in discussions of serious literature. He praises both A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems for their unity of mood.
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Critical Essay by Alexander David Kurke
6,390 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Kurke offers an interpretation of poem LXIII of A Shropshire Lad, discussing the work in relation to Housman's career as a classics scholar.
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