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Probably no poetry in modern times has had as much influence on the literary world as A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. As the New York Times said, "Housman has miniatured man's fate to the last twist of the knife and still he has made it bearable with the demonstration that truth and beauty go with it." This edition contains commissioned art works by Randolph Brown, famous Boston artist at the turn of the century; it also includes an Introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Delicate and pretty, this striking floral print displays stylised sprays of flowers amongst trailing branches. The Shropshire Posy pattern has a charming classic country feel about it. Featuring an array of colors, Laura Ashley Shropshire Posy is the perfect wallpaper for a fun yet sophisticated look. Color: Antique Pink.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 192pp. Printed boards, no d/j. A nice clean copy, practically as new.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 192pp. Printed boards, no d/j. A nice clean copy, practically as new.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Evocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman’s verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible effects of war, against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside. Inspirational for generations of readers, A Shropshire Lad, with its sweeping themes of youth and love, has found its way into the canon of English folksong and has been set to music by composers George Butterworth, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams. This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition features the superb wood engravings of the Vorticist artist and illustrator Agnes Miller Parker, and is accompanied by an afterword by Dr David Butterfield, Editor of the Housman Society Journal.

In a richly photographed memoir, the author of the Brother Cadfael mysteries explores Shropshire, a beautiful English shire that serves as the setting for her novels and is also the site of many medieval treasures. Tour.

Excerpt from Shropshire Houses: Past Present, Illustrated From DrawingsN this illustrated record of the Houses of Shropshire, the remnants of I old habitations will appear side by side with residences which have only just left the builders' hands. There is no definite point of separation between ancient and modern, and so gradual has been the process of decay and renewal, that there is no incongruity in their association.Changes, similar to those of to-day, were taking place nine hundred years ago. The Normans ousted the anglo-saxons, but they did not make a clean sweep, nor was the new order of things effected by force only. Marriage had a great deal to do with the harmonious relations which grew up between the Norman, the Saxon and the Celt.The passing away of Feudal Society is indicated by the ruins of the Feudal Castles. The displacement of old names by new, marks a course of natural development which nothing can resist, and which has always pre vailed. Of the fifty houses represented in this first volume, eight only can claim a date earlier than 1500, and of these, four are uninhabited; five are of the sixteenth century; six of the seventeenth; fifteen of the eighteenth; and sixteen of the nineteenth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Shropshire Lad was first published, at Housman's own expense, in 1896 after several publishers had turned it down. At first the book sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War, Housman's nostalgic depiction of rural life, the book became a bestseller The main theme of ""A Shropshire Lad"" is mortality, and advice about how we live our lives since death can come in anytime.

A Shropshire Lad By A. E. Housman

First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large oblong 8vo. 20 x 24 cm. pp 78. Original publishers flecked cloth, lettered maroon at spine label. e text was edited by David Wishart using Word 5. The type-face is Monotype Bell, the paper, Rothmill Natural Calico. The edition comprises 450 copies. This copy is number 198. ISBN: 0948764112 Fine.

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Probably no poetry in modern times has had as much influence on the literary world as A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. As the New York Times said, "Housman has miniatured man's fate to the last twist of the knife and still he has made it bearable with the demonstration that truth and beauty go with it." This edition contains commissioned art works by Randolph Brown, famous Boston artist at the turn of the century; it also includes an Introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Evocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman’s verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible effects of war, against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside. Inspirational for generations of readers, A Shropshire Lad, with its sweeping themes of youth and love, has found its way into the canon of English folksong and has been set to music by composers George Butterworth, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams. This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition features the superb wood engravings of the Vorticist artist and illustrator Agnes Miller Parker, and is accompanied by an afterword by Dr David Butterfield, Editor of the Housman Society Journal.

Volume XI, relating to an area between the left bank of the Severn and the Weald Moors, covers most of the east Shropshire coalfield. Two parishes from the borough of Wenlock and eight from Bradford hun-dred contributed territory to Telford New Town and the volume opens with an account of the town's planning and growth since designation (as Dawley) in 1963. Prehistoric settlement centred on the Wrekin in the late Iron Age. Uxacona stood on Watling Street, which crosses the area. Post-Roman settlement was earliest north of Watling Street; to the south settle-ments were smaller in woodland cleared at a later date. Lilleshall abbey, Wombridge priory, and other monasteries nearby had large interests in the area's growth. Wen-lock priory established a market at Madeley in 1269 but Wellington proved a more successful town, becoming one of Shrop-shire's three largest in the 18th century. The area cradled the industrial Revolution. Seventeenth-century coal and iron works grew rapidly after the 13th-century innova-tions, of the Darbys of Coalbrookdale, and the Iron Bridge (opened 1780) symbolizes the area's entrepreneurial talent. From c.1850, however, and despite the growth of Oakengates, the area declined; it has been for Telford new town to reverse that decline. In the north Telford's rural sur-roundings comprise land sloping down to the Weald Moors; in the west the Wrekin dominates Aston, Little Wenlock, and other secluded villages. To the south the scenery and historic remains of Coalbrook-dale and the Severn Gorge are now sedulously conserved. The volume includes an account of Bradford hundred.

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A study of the Housman notebooks in the Library of Congress and the development of the poet's most noteworthy work. Reproductions of the early drafts. Acknowledgments, table of contents, introduction, selected bibliography. Dust jacket slightly worn at edges. xii, 322 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

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Virtually as new. Softback; Dedication on fep from author to illustrator ' To John Allsup, with gratitude as ever, Mark O'Hanlan'. This is a personal guide to Shropshire & includes some of Malcolm Savilles early Memories of the county which he firt visited in the 1930s. When he died in 1982 he left an unfinished manuscript, which has been completed and updated by Mark O'Hanlan in this book . Scarce. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

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