A Shropshire Lad (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: A. E. Housman
- First Published: 1896
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Death or dying, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: Shropshire, England
Critical Evaluation:
In 1896, the high point of what has been variously called “the yellow ’nineties” and “the Beardsley period,” Victorian poetry was at a low ebb. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning were both dead; Algernon Charles Swinburne had long since retired to Putney. The Pre-Raphaelite movement had subsided. Thomas Hardy was still known only as a novelist. The minor poets seemed stereotyped into two groups: those who, like Oscar Wilde, produced “Swinburne and water” and those who wrote frail imitations of the French of Paul Verlaine. The only new...
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