HOUSMAN, A.E.
A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems.
“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one": A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems; Finely Bound
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922.
$850.00
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Finely bound example of Housman's classic work A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters levant morocco by Whitman Bennett Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers. Composers began setting the poems to music less than ten years after their first appearance, and many parodists have satirized Housman's themes and poetic style. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, his work is often depicted in Tom Stoppard's works, among them The Invention of Love.
A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems.
$850.00
Out of Stock
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