A Shrosphire Lad
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781570760587 (1570760586)
Publish date: July 1st 1996
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Pages no: 109
Edition language: English
Series: Penguin English Journeys (#7)
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...
Note--A Shropshire LadNotes to the TextIndex of First Lines
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...
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.