Housman Country: Into the Heart of England

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“Parker’s beautiful Housman Country tells you everything you want to know about the life and influence of England’s most satirised but inimitable poets.” —Evening StandardA New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceNominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyA. 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 England in their pockets, were adapted by composers trying to create a new kind of English music, and have influenced poetry, fiction, music, and drama right up to the present day. Everyone has a personal “land of lost content” with “blue remembered hills,” and Housman has been a tangible and far-reaching presence in a startling range of work, from the war poets and Ralph Vaughan Williams to Inspector Morse and Morrissey.Housman Country is a vivid exploration of England and Englishness, in which Parker maps out terrain that is as historical and emotional as it is topographical.“[A] rich blend of literary criticism and cultural history.” —The Spectator
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
544 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780374709358
Related ISBNs:
9780374173043
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyrighted By:
Peter Parker
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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