english poet alfred edward housman wrote a shropshire lad in the early 20 th century.
english poet alfred edward housman wrote a shropshire lad in the early 20 th century.
early 20 th century poet who wrote a shropshire lad?
english poet alfred edward housman
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a shropshire lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the english poet alfred edward housman, published in 1896. after a slow beginning, it rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers. composers began setting the poems to music less than ten years after their first appearance. many parodies have also been written that satirise housman's themes and stylistic characteristics.









































section::::a shropshire rhapsody.
a shropshire lad
among other cycles composed during the period before world war 1 were the four "songs of a shropshire lad" by graham peel and the six for voice and piano in "a shropshire lad: a song cycle" (op. 22, 1911) by charles fonteyn manney (1872 - 1951). george butterworth was particularly drawn to housman's poems, composing within a short period the "six songs from a shropshire lad" (1911) and "bredon hill and other songs" (1912) as well as his emotive "rhapsody, a shropshire lad", first performed in 1913. butterworth was killed during the war, but towards the end of it ivor gurney was working on the songs in his cycle, "ludlow and teme" (1919), and later went on to compose the eight poems in "the western playland" (1921). ernest john moeran was another combatant in the war and afterwards set the four songs in his "ludlow town" (1920).
a shropshire lad