A. E. Housman

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to some of the greatest poets in history.

ISBN	0571226744	Pages	80
ISBN13	9780571226740 (What's this?)	Published in	London
Publisher	Faber and Faber	Series title	Poet to Poet S.
Imprint	Faber and Faber	Previous ISBN	9780571207053
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	198
Publication date	07 Apr 2005	Width (mm)	129
DEWEY	821.912	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC22

		Loveliest of trees, the cherry now		5
		Reveille		6
		When smoke stood up from Ludlow		7
		On moonlit heath and lonesome bank		8
		On your midnight pallet lying		10
		When I watch the living meet		11
		When I was one-and-twenty		12
		There pass the careless people		13
		Look not in my eyes, for fear		14
		It nods and curtseys and recovers		15
		To an athlete dying young		16
		Bredon Hill		17
		The street sounds to the soldiers' tread		19
		Say, lad, have you things to do?		20
		'Is my team ploughing?		21
		The Welsh marches		23
		The Lent lily		25
		Others, I am not the first		26
		On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble		27
		From far, from eve and morning		28
		On the idle hill of summer		29
		White in the moon the long road lies		30
		The winds out of the west land blow		31
		Into my heart an air that kills		32
		Shot? So quick, so clean and ending?		33
		Bring, in this timeless grave to throw		34
		Clunton and Clunbury		35
		Far in a western brookland		36
		With rue my heart is laden		37
		I hoed and trenched and weeded		38
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