Description
Set against a half-imagined Shropshire of lanes, fields, and fading light, this celebrated cycle of poems moves with quiet inevitability through love, longing, and the steady approach of loss. Across lyrical, often deceptively simple verses, the speaker returns again and again to the fleeting nature of youth—how desire brightens, how memory lingers, and how mortality ultimately reshapes every promise. With its spare musicality and haunting clarity, the collection has become a defining voice of late-Victorian melancholy, balancing pastoral beauty with an unflinching awareness of time’s cost. Whether read as a sequence or as standalone lyrics, these poems invite you to feel the ache of “lost content” and to recognize how grief can be both personal and universal.
Available Editions
hardcover
Penguin Classic
Published Feb 27, 2018
96 pages
ISBN: 9780241303153
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Details
First Published
1896
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Shorpshire Lad by A.E. Houseman.