It consists of settings of six poems by A. E. Housman from his 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. 'Fare well, I will,' said I. From Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, September 22, 1972. Alfred Edward Housman was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England, on March 26, 1859. Land of Lost Content - How is Land of Lost Content abbreviated? See all formats and editions. Orig. I see it shining plain, It’s about nostalgia, and the missed opportunities that we look back on when we grow older. Lewis‘ Hathaway once used it as a pick-up line. 1 rating. Alfred Edward Housman was born in Worcestershire, England, and he was profoundly affected by his mother’s death when he was 12. Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,The happy highways where I wentAnd cannot come again. Within its lost debris are treasures that I miss. The use of alliteration in the second stanza – ‘land of lost content’, ‘happy highways’, ‘cannot come’ – artfully echoes this wistfulness, as the aspirated ‘h’ sounds of ‘happy highways’, reflecting the speaker’s own futile aspirations to regain the past, give way to the harsh sound of ‘cannot come’. A Shropshire Lad AuthorAlfred Edward Housman IllustratorWilliam Hyde CountryEngland LanguageEnglish GenrePoetry Publication date 1896 Media typePrint Dewey Decimal 821.912 LC ClassPR4809.H15 Followed byLast Poems TextA Shropshire Lad at Wikisource A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. A.E. These are the places where I lost the content of the life I had before my Pentecost epiphany, my wife. The most well-known poems of A.E. The land of lost content. What spires, what farms are those? I see it shining plain, LOLC - Land of Lost Content. Ireland returned to Housman in 1920/21 for the song-cycle The Land of Lost Content, one of the more searching examinations of the full emotional depth of Housman's Shropshire Lad poems, with their heady sense of loss, fatalism and nostalgia. The fortieth poem in Housman’s seminal collection A Shropshire Lad, “Into my heart an air that kills” imagines the past as a “land of lost content”. The 63 spare nostalgic verses, born out of the troubles Housman suffered during his life, are set in a half-imaginary Shropshire, a ‘land of lost content’, and the heart-penetrating simplicity of its verse has given it an enduring popularity. That is the land of lost content, Poem XL is typical of its mood: … To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' Set in a half-imaginary Shropshire, a nostalgic ‘land of lost content’, they are often addressed to, or spoken by, a soldier or a boy farmer. And cannot come again. Published at the author’s expense in 1896, A.E. No. Into my heart an air that kills 15570 Augener Poems from Housman's A Shropshire lad. This page was last edited on 30 December 2020, at 18:16. Gary Sloan. A E Housman (1859-1936) A Shropshire Lad XL INTO my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? For numerous readers, Parker demonstrates in rich and varied detail, Housman's poetry both articulated and incarnated 'the land of lost content.'" Housman’s A Shropshire Lad did not at first attract many readers. The "land of lost content" may be as illusive as it is elusive. At the outbreak of war in 1914 Housman’s poems suddenly became popular, striking a powerful emotional chord with a nation losing its young men to the trenches. Housman, amateur poet and classics scholar, crystallized love, longing, and things forever lost in his lyrical ballads. It is Land of Lost Content. At first glance, it can be a major surprise that the author of the enormously popular poetry collection A Shropshire Lad was a classical scholar by the name of A.E. https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=The_Land_of_Lost_Content&oldid=10776878, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. A typical performance takes about 11 minutes. From yon far country blows: Housman, ... On the other hand, the public image of the church has lost its credulity in the marketplace of ideas, and those who seek the welfare of their neighbors are largely ignored by the mainstream press for lacking scandal and pizzazz. The Land of Lost Content is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1920–21 by John Ireland (1879–1962). The content, so it seems to be, has been replaced by dis- content. That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. Looking for abbreviations of LOLC? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman. Housman Edited by Archie Burnett (Oxford University Press, 2 volumes, 643 pp. When one looks at hills or mountains in the distance, they often take on a deep blue color before darkening into a black line against the horizon. The Land of Lost Content The Letters of A.E. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers. for high v. and pf. From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, The traditional quatrain form of the poem, with the abab rhyme scheme, is used in many of Housman’s poems, and here the form serves him well, allowing him to reflect on the passing of time (and the futility of longing for a land and age that is dead and gone) in taut, regularly rhythmic stanzas. XL The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. Land of Lost Content listed as LOLC. Here is one of the last performances given by Benjamin Britten with his lifelong partner Peter Pears. XLI In my own shire, if I was sad, Homely comforters I had: The earth, because my heart was sore, Sorrowed for the son she bore; And standing hills, long to remain, Shared their short-lived comrade's pain. Thursday, September 3, 2020 Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? IJI 26 Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. No Shropshire lad, I come from Hen- don, Golders Green the continent and mise-en-scène that I see through a screen. The Land of Lost Content by Alfred Edward Housman. What are those blue remembered hills, Nevertheless the poet sees it now as the place "where I went/ And cannot come again." and 585 pp., $330) That is the land of lost content, ... – A.E. The Land of Lost Content Alt ernative. Title Composer Ireland, John: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. - requested by Maureen the complete poem can be found at BigEye The fortieth poem in Housman’s seminal collection A Shropshire Lad, “Into my heart an air that kills” imagines the past as a “land of lost content”. This poem is in the public domain. Song-cycle by Ireland, comp. 1920-21 First Pub lication. Table of Contents: The Lent lily Ladslove Goal and wicket Many of the responses, tributes, and recollection unearthed by Parker are both striking and moving... For numerous readers, Parker demonstrates in rich and varied detail, Housman's poetry both … Housman, a superb Classics scholar and English amateur poet who wrote of love, longing, and things forever lost. The Lent Lily, 2. That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went Anton Sorkin. The Land of Lost Content is the title of a poem from A.E. The complete poem reads as follows: Ladslove, 3. Housman. A. E. Housman Quotes That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. Description : 1 score (24 p.) ; 31 cm. Land of Lost Content, The. Housman's 1896 cycle A Shropshire Lad, which Chenevix-Trench translated into Latin while a prisoner of the … Source for information on Land of Lost Content, The: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music dictionary. 1921 Librettist Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) Language English Dedication 6 songs The Lent Lily Ladslove Goal and Wicket The Vain Desire The Encounter Epilogue Though his poetry comprises but four slender volumes--A Shropshire Lad (ASL), Last Poems (LP), More Poems (MP), and Additional Poems (AD)--Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) belongs to the pantheon of English poets.Born in Worcestershire, in the environs of the Shropshire hills, Housman liked to amble through field, dale, and highland. Goal and wicket, 4. 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