Poetry

A Shropshire Lad

by A. E. Housman

Sixty-three short poems of country lads, market towns, soldiering, hangings and early death, published at Housman’s own expense in 1896. Housman was a professor of Latin who had grown up in Worcestershire, looking west to the Shropshire hills. It sold slowly at first, then for decades.

The librarian

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Reading time

About 35 minutes

Where to find it

The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #5720. In the public domain in the United States.