A.E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad

Collection of lyric poems about rural love and young melancholy

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A.E. Housman

English poet and classical scholar whose A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of elegiac poems lamenting lost youth and rural England. Its melancholic beauty made it one of the most popular poetry collections of its era.

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