Housman
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housman is being redisoveredsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis volume a shropshire lad led him to be considered the finest poet in englandhousman's work, popular, accessible, pessimistic, fell from favour in the post-war period but as his times are reassessed there is a growing interest in his authentic voiceoxfam bookshop cheltenham the poetry of a
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Paypal accepted, price includes uk p&pdiscount for purchasing multiple items, see my other listingspdf file available if requestedhousman, music by graham peeloriginal copy, published by chappell & co1 in e flat in good conditionnext day dispatch guaranteed
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Alfred edward housman () usually known as ahousman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and a shropshire lad and other poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexitiesthis volume brings together the works housman published in his lifetime, a shropshire lad () and last poems (), along with the posthumous selections more poems and additional poems, and three translations of extracts from aeschylus, sophocles and euripides that display his mastery of classical literaturehousman's poems, including'to an athlete dying young', 'loveliest of trees, the cherry now' and 'when i was one-and-twenty', conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadnesstheir scope is wide - ranging from religious doubt and doomed love to intense nostalgia for the countryside and patriotic celebration of the life of the soldier - and they are made all the more memorable by their distinctive diction and perfectly modulated rhythm and soundsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis penguin classics edition is introduced by nick laird with revisions by archie burnett and an afterword by john sparrow'what are those blue remembered hills,what spires, what farms are those?'in this collection, ahousman, was an english poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems a shropshire ladif you enjoyed a shropshire lad and other poems, you might like john clare's selected poems, also available in penguin classicsin his afterword, john sparrow discusses housman's methods of writing and melancholic temperamentoxfam bookshop cheltenham athis edition has been revised by archie burnett and includes updated notes on the text and indexes of first lines and titles
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A tale from the arabian nightsretold by laurence housman illustrated by edmund dulac publisher: hodder and stoughtonprinted by tif you require additional information / pictures, please send me a messageconstable, printers to his majesty at the edinburgh university presslondon first trade edition10 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues, original cream cloth, ornately decorated in gilt and light blue
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Oxfam shop pershore this superb new edition combines the setting of the poem, approved by the housman society scholars, with the beautiful wood engravings of agnes miller parker and a new introduction by ian rogersonsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki8vo, first edition, one of 500 copies (of which 150 were exported for publication in new york), title in red and black, original parchment-backed pale blue paper covered boards, cream paper label lettered vertically in red (variant b), offsetting to endpapers, minor soiling and spotting to bindingour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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It will also, effectively, be a history of postwar british politics from powell's perspectivethere have been many biographies of enoch powell - this will be the 7th or the 8thsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book will cover all aspects of powell's life: his midlands childhood, his teaching by aoxfam shop fulwood road the definitive, controversial, authorised biography of one of the defining political figures of postwar britainhousman, his appointment at the age of 25 as professor of greek at the university of adelaide, his writing of poetry, his love for an aristocratic irish woman, his resignation from macmillans cabinet, the rivers of blood speech, and his spiritual godfathering of margaret thatcherthey testify at least to the fascination we have for him, but none will be a patch on simon heffer's, the only one written with full access to all his personal and public papers, by one of britain's leading conservative commentators and, with his acclaimed book on carlyle published by weidenfeld & nicholson, one of it's most promising biographers
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