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    When I Was One And Twenty
    When I Was One And Twenty
    When I Was One And Twenty
    Audiobook20 minutes

    When I Was One And Twenty

    Written by A. E. Housman

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook


    LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of When I Was One And Twenty (No. XIII in A Shropshire Lad) by A.E. Housman. This was the weekly poetry project for June 14th, 2009.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    When I Was One And Twenty
    Author

    A. E. Housman

    Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) was born and brought up in the Bromsgrove region of Worcestershire, adjacent to Shropshire, and was educated locally and at St John's College, Oxford. Though he was a fine scholar, he failed to gin an Honours degree, and spent some years in the Patent Office in London. A series of brilliant academic articles secured him the Professorship of Latin at London University and he went on the become Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. Most famous for A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems was published in 1922, More Poems appeared posthumously and Collected Poems in 1939.

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