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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.
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Alfred Edward Housman (/ ˈ h aʊ s m ən /; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
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 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")
Land of the lost: Hidden lagoon network found with living fossils similar to those from more than 3 billion years ago
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).