CONTENTS

IMAGES and VERSE 

A Shropshire Lad.

1. L

Clunton and Clunbury,

Clungunford and Clun,

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2. XL. (Last Poems)

Tell me not here, it needs not saying,
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3. XL.

Into my heart an air that kills.

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4. LII

Far in a western brookland.

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5. XXII

The street sounds to the 

soldier's tread.

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6. XXI

In summertime on Bredon.

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7. XLVI

Bring, in this timeless grave

to throw,

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8. XXXII

From far, from eve and

morning,

Alfred Edward Housman the poet was born in the year 1859 near Bromsgrove in the county of Worcestershire. He was the eldest of seven children. Housman won a scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford where he gained a First Class Honours Degree in Classical Moderations. In 1892 Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at the University College London. His book of poetry 'A Shropshire Lad' was published in 1896 and it has been in print ever since. Housman went on to teach as a Professor at Cambridge.