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Housman is said originally to have titled his book The Poems of Terence Hearsay, referring to a character there, but changed the title to A Shropshire Lad at the suggestion of a colleague in the British Museum. A friend of his remembered otherwise, however, and claimed that Housman's choice of title was always the latter. [1]
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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
Ron Harper. Ron Harper, who had a big presence in the television world in the 1960s and '70s, died on Thursday, March 21, at his home in West Hills.He was 88. Harper's daughter, Nicole Longeuay ...
Ron Harper, an actor best known for short-lived TV series like Land of the Lost and Planet of the Apes, has died. He was 91. Harper died Thursday of natural causes at his home. His daughter ...
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.