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The Land of Lost Content is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1920–21 by John Ireland (1879–1962). It consists of settings of six poems by A. E. Housman from his 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. [1] [2] A typical performance takes about 11 minutes.
John Ireland included six poems for piano and tenor in The Land of Lost Content (1921). His We'll to the woods no more (1928) includes two poems for voice and piano taken from Last Poems and a purely instrumental epilogue titled "Spring will not wait", which is based on "'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town" from A Shropshire Lad (XXXIX). [25]
The Land of Lost Content may refer to: The Land of Lost Content (book), a biography of schoolteacher Anthony Chenevix-Trench; The Land of Lost Content (John Ireland), a song cycle; Land of Lost Content (museum), a museum of popular culture in Shropshire, England
The poems are marked by pessimism and preoccupation with death, without religious consolation (Housman had become an atheist while still an undergraduate). Housman wrote many of them while living in Highgate, London, before ever visiting Shropshire, which he presented in an idealised pastoral light as his 'land of lost content'. [28]
The Land of Lost Content was a museum in Craven Arms, Shropshire, that collected everyday objects such as toys, magazines and packaging. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The museum's name was taken from Poem XL in A. E. Housman 's collection A Shropshire Lad .
The Land of Lost Content: the Biography of Anthony Chenevix-Trench is a biographical book about the life of British headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench, written by Mark Peel. Chenevix-Trench had been a widely acclaimed teacher at Shrewsbury School , and subsequently headmaster at Bradfield College , Eton College and Fettes College , but was ...
The title comes from the 40th poem in A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. [1] ... That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain,
The Land of Lost Content. Stories. (Vanguard Press, 1970) Circumstances Beyond Our Control: Poems (Johns Hopkins: 2006) The Pregnant Man (Doubleday, 1978) (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize) Running on Empty (Doubleday, 1981) Personal Accounts: New & Selected Poems 1966-1986 (Ontario Review Press, 1986). According to the preface, 1/3 of the ...