{"product_id":"a-shropshire-lad","title":"A Shropshire Lad","description":"\u003cp\u003eDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's \u003ci\u003eA Shropshire Lad\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman's verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible effects of war, against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspirational for generations of readers, \u003ci\u003eA Shropshire Lad\u003c\/i\u003e, with its sweeping themes of youth and love, has found its way into the canon of English folksong and has been set to music by composers George Butterworth, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features the superb wood engravings of the Vorticist artist and illustrator Agnes Miller Parker, and is accompanied by an afterword by Dr David Butterfield, Editor of the Housman Society Journal.","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561354203298,"sku":"9781509843220","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1240\/0398\/files\/imageloader_9ea0937d-cad2-4acd-a8b5-6a1a0fba0422.jpg?v=1790937919","url":"https:\/\/thereadingspa.com\/products\/a-shropshire-lad","provider":"The Reading Spa","version":"1.0","type":"link"}