Sixty-three lyric poems center on the exquisite but fleeting pleasures of life
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About the Author:
Housman was a classical scholar and poet.
Review:
Housman is a high-water mark of British lyric poetry, and this fine production captures perfectly his strong, melodic beat and decisive rhyme, and his wonderful way with words. Samuel West's cultivated Midlands accent may not be specifically Shropshire, but his voice and reading are true to Housman who was not, after all, some rough Shropshire lad himself but an Oxford don. His Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now and To an Athlete Dying Young are beautifully rendered here. West, you feel, reads poetry as it should be read confidently, with ease and conviction, as if all the world spoke in meter and rhyme. --D.A.W., AudioFile Magazine
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- PublisherAshford Pr Pub
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 1852530715
- ISBN 13 9781852530716
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages80
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