Housman Country : Into the Heart of England by Parker, Peter

Little Brown, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

Little, Brown Book Group Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London.: Little, Brown., 2016. x, 446pp, LXIII A Shropshire Lad. Slight edge wear to the DW.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Little Brown, 2016 9781408706138. Fine/Fine. Hardback as new. First edition. Second printing. No annotations or inscriptions. DW is NOT price-clipped. 544 pages including the full text of 'A Shropshire Lad'. Beautiful wood engravings on the endpapers by Agnes Miller Parker. A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness. A. E. Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English countryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a.century ago, and the book has never been out of print. In 'Housman Country', Peter Parker explores the lives of A. E. Housman and his most famous book, and in doing so shows how 'A Shropshire Lad' has permeated English life and culture since its publication. The poems were taken to war by soldiers who wanted to carry… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.