A Shropshire Lad British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2014) and Simon Templar

and Simon Templar

Watching them all is Millie

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In this beautifully illustrated book

A Shropshire Lad British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2014) and Simon TemplarComprised of 63 short poems, this captivating collection lingers on themes of youthfulness and mortality, taking as its setting an idyllic Shropshire countryside. In strikingly simple versesincluding the famous stanzas known as "When I Was One and Twenty"Housman creates beautifully nostalgic and wistful works haunted by the transience of youth in a society in which young men are sent to war and to work.