Housman’s second book of verse, published in 1922, gathers forty-one short lyrics in the manner of A Shropshire Lad: soldiers and grenadiers, lovers and hanged men, the westward sky and the passing of youth. It includes ‘Epithalamium’, ‘Eight O’Clock’ and ‘Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries’, each poem honed to a few spare stanzas.
Pure, melancholy and perfectly made verse that rewards anyone who has loved A Shropshire Lad. Download the free EPUB.