Reviews of book: A Shropshire Lad / With An Introduction By William Stanley Braithwaite [ By: A. E. Housman ]

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by A.E. Housman

Bettie's Books rated it

10 years ago

text A Shropshire Lad by Alfred Edward Housman

bookshelves: published-1896, public-domain, poetry, victorian, e-book, gutenberg-project, spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015 Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Anna Matsuyama Read from January 31, 2014 to May 22, 2015 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5720/5... Picked this up today because I am grieving Endea...

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Edward rated it

11 years ago

text A Shropshire Lad

Note--A Shropshire LadNotes to the TextIndex of First Lines

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Melody Murray's Books rated it

13 years ago

text A Shropshire Lad (Dover Thrift Editions)

8/2012 I come to Housman when I'm hollow, when I'm lost, when I'm confused. I come here when I need to come here, and he takes me in, he comforts me with snark, with acute observation, with hilarity and bottomless woe. There's nobody, nobody at all like Housman. I have entire swaths of this by hear...

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globulon rated it

16 years ago

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There are some nice lyrical moments but on the whole the repetitive "Ecclesiastes" type theme gets old fairly quick. Almost every poem is about death, and many of them say much the same thing in much the same way.

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