Edexcel AoS1: Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge

Hanh Doan
Thursday, February 1, 2018

On Wenlock Edge is a song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams that sets some of AE Housman's poems from his collection A Shropshire Lad. Published in 1896, the 63 poems in A Shropshire Lad reflect a variety of different themes (including the simple pleasures of rural life and a longing for lost innocence).