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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.
Charles Wilfred Orr, who made 24 Housman settings, united some in cycles of two (1921–1922), seven (1934) and three songs (1940). [26] Lennox Berkeley's 5 Housman Songs (Op.14/3, 1940) also dates from the start of World War II. Another cycle composed since then has been the five in Mervyn Horder's A Shropshire Lad (1980).
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] Housman himself acknowledged that "No doubt I have been unconsciously influenced by the Greeks and Latins, but [the] chief sources of which I am conscious are ...
Pages in category "Musical settings of poems by A. E. Housman" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... The Land of Lost Content (John Ireland) O.
The Land of Lost Content (song cycle, A. E. Housman, 1920–21) "The Lent Lily" "Ladslove" ("Look not in my eyes") "Goal and Wicket" ("Twice a week the winter thorough") "The Vain Desire" ("If truth in hearts that perish") "The Encounter" ("The street sounds to the soldiers' tread") "Epilogue" ("You smile upon your friend today")
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
It consists of settings of six poems from A. E. Housman's 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. Butterworth set another five poems from A Shropshire Lad in Bredon Hill and Other Songs (1912). Nine of the eleven songs were premiered at Oxford on 16 May 1911, by James Campbell McInnes (baritone) and the composer (piano).
The Land of Lost Content has donated objects in its collections to various other museums and exhibitions. These include a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Festival of Britain in 2011, supplying 1930s posters to the Black Country Living Museum and furnishing a flat with contemporary objects in Balfron Tower as part of a National Trust display of Brutalist architecture in 2014.