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Stephen Foulkes

Shropshire Lads: Songs to the Poems of AE Housman

By Stephen Foulkes

Label: Duneim Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Benjamin Burrows: Grenadier, The Half-Moon, the Sigh, From Far; Arnold Bax: Far in the Western Brookland; In the Morning, When I was One and Twenty; Brian Daubney: The Land of Lost Content; Margaret Wegener: Look Not in My Eyes; Clive Pollard: Because I Liked You Better; Calvin Bowman: R.L.S.; Stephen Duro: Is My Team Ploughing? Ernest John Moeran: When Smoke Stood Up, When I Came Last to Ludlow, Far in Western Brookland; Arthur Somervell: A Shropshire Lad.

Stephen Foulkes and David Bednall: Shropshire Lads: Songs to the Poems of AE Housman

by C. Michael Bailey
October 23, 2017

'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: / You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, / To see the rate you drink your beer. With those words, poet AE Housman begins his celebrated Poem LXII from his famous collection A Shropshire Lad. This particular poem contains the admonition that, ...