Shropshire Lad

Born in 1859 in the village of Fockbury in Worcestershire, Alfred Edward Housman was the eldest of seven children.He was educated at Bromsgrove School and later read Classics at St. John’s College, Oxford. His poem A Shropshire Lad was published in 1896.After a period as a Clerk in the Patent Office in London he returned to academia becoming Professor of Latin at Cambridge University.He died in 1936 and his ashes are interred in the shadow of the walls of St Laurence's church, Ludlow.John Hayward is a professional landscape photographer with a great passion for his native Shropshire.He is a Shropshire lad based in Shifnal. His stunning images appear in books, national newspapers and magazines, and are used extensively by top calendar and greetings card publishers. John runs the Shropshire and Beyond photographic library, which showcases the very best that the county has to offer. Research and the captioning in this book is by Lynne Hayward, a professional journalist who has worked on local and regional newspapers and now writes for national magazines.

To coincide with the (150th) anniversary, this lavish new edition of his popular sequence of poems has been published, combining the poet’s lyrical verses with a collection of stunning photographs of Shropshire… Anyone who loves the English countryside will enjoy browsing its pages.