A Shropshire Lad (Version 3): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Shropshire Lad (Version 3) by A. E. Housman: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 4 original MP3 tracks, 1:07:05 running time and a link to listen.
A Shropshire Lad (Version 3), credited to A. E. Housman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of A Shropshire Lad (Version 3) by A. E. Housman. Read in English by clarinetcarrot Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 poems which describe an idyllic rural existence, but with the main theme being young mens' early deaths. This led its popularity during the Second Boer War, and then later during WWI. - Summary by clarinetcarrot
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Shropshire Lad (Version 3)
- Author credits: A. E. Housman
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 4
- Listed recording duration: 1:07:05
Catalogue topics
- death
- england
- melancholy
- rural
Track guide
- 00 - Introduction — 4:53
- 01 - Poems I - XX — 18:38
- 02 - Poems XXI - XL — 18:41
- 03 - Poems XLI - LXIII — 24:53
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