Peter Parker: Housman Country, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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In Housman Country, Peter Parker explores the lives of A. E. Housman and his much-loved book of poems, showing how A Shropshire Lad has permeated English life and culture for over a century.

'Excellent . . . Housman Country offers three books for the price of one: a lucid biographical portrait; a study of Housman's lasting influence on our culture; and, as an appendix, the whole of A Shropshire Lad' Blake Morrison, Guardian

'Parker's intricate and beautiful exploration of Housman's influence on everything from English music to the way our identity is shaped by our relationship with the weather, the land, the distant horizon, speaks with peculiar poignancy to our times' Jane Shilling, Mail on Sunday

'Excellent and extraordinarily thorough' Mark Cocker, Sunday Telegraph

'In offering this rich blend of literary criticism and cultural history, Parker proves to be the perfect guide . . . measured and discreetly witty' Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Spectator