A Shropshire Lad: A collection of sixty-three poems by A.E. Housman, an English poet and classical scholar.

A Shropshire Lad , written by Alfred Edward Housman , was first published in 1896. With a setting of the picturesque Shropshire countryside, this collection of sixty-three short poems explores themes of youth and mortality. A Shropshire Lad became hugely successful following the Second Boer War and World War I, due to themes that resonated with English readers, such as the celebration of the soldier’s life and nostalgia for one’s hometown. In remarkably simple verses—including the renowned stanzas known as “”When I was one-and-twenty””—Housman crafts exquisitely nostalgic and wistful poems haunted by the transience of youth in a society where young men are sent to war and to work. Sneak Peek “Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.” —- ISBN: 9798865736523