Details
A Shropshire Lad
5,99 € |
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Verlag: | Naxos Audiobooks |
Format: | MP3 (in ZIP-Archiv) |
Veröffentl.: | 04.07.2011 |
ISBN/EAN: | 4057664034540 |
Sprache: | englisch |
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Beschreibungen
Naxos AudioBooks continues its popular The Great Poets series with A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman. Published at the author's own expense in 1896, after rejection from publishers, the collection contains a cycle of 63 poems. Despite exploring themes of lost love, obsession, pessimism, and death, the poems touched English readers and the book became a best seller during the Second Boer War and World War I. The collection, set in a half-imagined pastoral Shropshire, includes the well-known poems "When I Was One-and-Twenty", "To an Athlete Dying Young", and "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now".