A Shropshire Lad

Description: A Shropshire Lad A. E. Houseman The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is remembered sentimentally by the young men who express a melancholy lament for the lost time of happy youth, the transience and unfairness of love, the disillusionment of shattered ideals, and the grim possibility of an early death in the service of the British Crown. There is no single Shropshire Lad per se, and Shropshire itself, although an actual place, is largely an imagined idyll and literary construct. Published in 1896, the book gradually gained popularity during the Second Boer War and then the First World War, owing to the themes of military action and dying young. Poet A. E. Houseman targeted the poems to a young male readership, and the publisher kept prices low enough to issue small, inexpensive pocket editions which were carried by many British soldiers. All but seven of the poems have been set to music, twelve more than ten times. Composers are naturally attracted to the mix of emotional feeling, lyrical style, and folksy subject matter. W. H. Auden wrote that “no other poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent” of his generation. George Orwell recollected that “these were the poems which I and my contemporaries used to recite to ourselves, over and over.” Product Details Read by: Version 1 - Alaaious Version 2 - Jon Sindell Length: Version 1 - 53 minutes Version 2 - 1 hour 11 minutes Type: Solo readings Media: MP3 CD Package: Paper sleeve Item No.: CD-1235 List Price: $3.49 Artwork: Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing CD label art: Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats CD jewel case art: Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card DVD case art: Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert Credits Version 1 Book Coordinator: Alaaious Meta Coordinator: Alaaious Proof Listener: Kara Shallenberg Version 2 Book Coordinator: TriciaG Meta Coordinator: MaryAnn Artwork Cover: Bridgenorth, Shropshire, c. 1801, by Paul Sandby Inset: Cover design by William Hyde for the first illustrated edition of A Shropshire Lad in 1908 Inset: Photo of A. E. Houseman, 1910, by E. O. Hoppe The Recordings About MP3 Audio This MP3 digital audiobook is duplicated on compact disc in the MP3 audio format and is designed to play on any computer. It will play on CD and DVD players that are designed with MP3 capability. The files contained in an MP3 CD can be imported and played on mobile devices such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and smart phones and on PSP (Play Station Portable) and PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) devices. Your CD/DVD player or mobile device owner’s manual should specify whether the device has MP3 compatibility. If the device is not directly compatible with the MP3 Audio format, the files on the MP3 CD can be copied onto a computer drive and then played on the computer media player or transferred to a mobile device. The Recordings These recordings were made using the author’s original published work, which is in the public domain. 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Table of Contents Track Marker Start Time Description Track Marker Start Time Poem 1 1 0:00:16 Poem 1 1 1 0:00:15 Poem 1 1 2 0:01:29 Poem 2 1 2 0:01:48 Poem 2 1 3 0:01:57 Poem 3 1 3 0:02:25 Poem 3 1 4 0:02:52 Poem 4 1 4 0:03:46 Poem 4 1 5 0:03:49 Poem 5 1 5 0:04:50 Poem 5 1 6 0:05:04 Poem 6 1 6 0:06:12 Poem 6 1 7 0:05:34 Poem 7 1 7 0:06:50 Poem 7 1 8 0:06:33 Poem 8 1 8 0:08:03 Poem 8 1 9 0:07:34 Poem 9 1 9 0:09:12 Poem 9 1 10 0:08:43 Poem 10 1 10 0:10:40 Poem 10 1 11 0:09:34 Poem 11 1 11 0:11:40 Poem 11 1 12 0:10:06 Poem 12 1 12 0:12:20 Poem 12 1 13 0:10:40 Poem 13 1 13 0:13:06 Poem 13 1 14 0:11:14 Poem 14 1 14 0:13:49 Poem 14 1 15 0:11:57 Poem 15 1 15 0:14:45 Poem 15 1 16 0:12:42 Poem 16 1 16 0:15:37 Poem 16 1 17 0:13:02 Poem 17 1 17 0:16:04 Poem 17 1 18 0:13:30 Poem 18 1 18 0:16:39 Poem 18 1 19 0:13:50 Poem 19 1 19 0:17:03 Poem 19 1 20 0:15:07 Poem 20 1 20 0:18:37 Poem 20 1 21 0:15:43 Poem 21 1 21 0:19:23 Poem 21 1 22 0:16:59 Poem 22 1 22 0:21:06 Poem 22 1 23 0:17:29 Poem 23 1 23 0:21:43 Poem 23 1 24 0:18:27 Poem 24 1 24 0:23:01 Poem 24 1 25 0:18:57 Poem 25 1 25 0:23:39 Poem 25 1 26 0:19:35 Poem 26 1 26 0:24:27 Poem 26 1 27 0:20:24 Poem 27 1 27 0:25:27 Poem 27 1 28 0:21:34 Poem 28 1 28 0:26:53 Poem 28 1 29 0:22:57 Poem 29 1 29 0:28:51 Poem 29 1 30 0:23:39 Poem 30 1 30 0:29:45 Poem 30 1 31 0:24:16 Poem 31 1 31 0:30:36 Poem 31 1 32 0:25:08 Poem 32 1 32 0:31:50 Poem 32 1 33 0:25:33 Poem 33 1 33 0:32:29 Poem 33 1 34 0:26:09 Poem 34 1 34 0:33:19 Poem 34 2 35 0:00:21 Poem 35 1 35 0:34:39 Poem 35 2 36 0:01:03 Poem 36 1 36 0:35:35 Poem 36 2 37 0:01:43 Poem 37 2 37 0:00:16 Poem 37 2 38 0:03:09 Poem 38 2 38 0:02:12 Poem 38 2 39 0:03:52 Poem 39 2 39 0:03:22 Poem 39 2 40 0:04:22 Poem 40 2 40 0:04:00 Poem 40 2 41 0:04:41 Poem 41 2 41 0:04:27 Poem 41 2 42 0:05:50 Poem 42 2 42 0:06:06 Poem 42 2 43 0:07:45 Poem 43 2 43 0:08:55 Poem 43 2 44 0:09:25 Poem 44 2 44 0:11:19 Poem 44 2 45 0:10:36 Poem 45 2 45 0:12:57 Poem 45 2 46 0:10:59 Poem 46 2 46 0:13:28 Poem 46 2 47 0:11:52 Poem 47 2 47 0:14:39 Poem 47 2 48 0:13:01 Poem 48 2 48 0:16:14 Poem 48 2 49 0:14:02 Poem 49 2 49 0:17:42 Poem 49 2 50 0:14:32 Poem 50 2 50 0:18:20 Poem 50 2 51 0:15:28 Poem 51 2 51 0:19:42 Poem 51 2 52 0:16:24 Poem 52 2 52 0:21:06 Poem 52 2 53 0:16:57 Poem 53 2 53 0:21:54 Poem 53 2 54 0:18:13 Poem 54 2 54 0:23:40 Poem 54 2 55 0:18:31 Poem 55 2 55 0:24:09 Poem 55 2 56 0:19:08 Poem 56 2 56 0:25:02 Poem 56 2 57 0:19:45 Poem 57 2 57 0:25:55 Poem 57 2 58 0:20:04 Poem 58 2 58 0:26:21 Poem 58 2 59 0:20:25 Poem 59 2 59 0:26:47 Poem 59 2 60 0:20:56 Poem 60 2 60 0:27:31 Poem 60 2 61 0:21:16 Poem 61 2 61 0:27:57 Poem 61 2 62 0:22:09 Poem 62 2 62 0:29:11 Poem 62 2 63 0:25:05 Poem 63 2 63 0:32:53 Poem 63 Terms and Conditions Terms of Sale The buyer can pay using the Checkout button when the listing ends or wait to receive an automated email invoice shortly after the listing ends with totals and payment instructions. 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