Spare, aching poems of young men, lost love, and early death in a half-imagined Shropshire countryside.
Books that mention A Shropshire Lad (6)
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster: “What have they got? Byron. Exactly. A Shropshire Lad. Never heard of it.”
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos: “Verses from the “Shropshire Lad” jingled mockingly through his head.”
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: “Alfred Housman (1859-1936), whose collection The Shropshire Lad vies with the In Memoriam of Alfred Tennyson”
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “He published early stories by Damon Runyan and Joseph Conrad, introduced A. E. Housman's Shropshire Lad to the American public, and provided a forum for the new work of William Butler Yeats and Moira O'Neill.”