A South Shropshire Spring

1. A.E. Housman: ‘Into my heart…’
2. Mary Webb: ‘Very Early’
3. Song of a blackbird
4. ‘The Living Edge: a Wanderer’s Guide to Wenlock Edge’ (National Trust, 2011)
5. John Ireland: ‘Spring will not wait’ (piano solo)
6. ‘Country Diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire’ (The Guardian, April 28, 2022)
7. Wilfred Owen: ‘Spring Offensive’
8. Virgil: ‘Eclogues 1’ (epilogue)
9. A.E. Housman, from letter to an English teacher in Algeria
10. A.E. Housman, from ‘The Name and Nature of Poetry’ (lecture, May 1933)
11. George Butterworth: ‘Loveliest of Trees’ (poem by A.E. Housman)
12. Arthur Somervell: ‘Loveliest of Trees’
13. George Butterworth: ‘Is my team ploughing?’ (poem by A.E. Housman)
14. Ralph Vaughan Williams: ‘Is my team ploughing?’
15. A.E. Housman: ‘On Wenlock Edge’
16. Ralph Vaughan Williams: ‘On Wenlock Edge’
17. Thomas Hardy: ‘The Roman Road’
18. Ottorino Respighi: ‘The Pines of the Appian Way’, from ‘Pines of Rome’
19. W.H. Auden: ‘In Praise of Limestone’
20. D.H. Lawrence: from ‘St.Mawr’
21. John Masefield: ‘In the red west…’
22. George Butterworth: ‘On the Banks of Green Willow’
23. Bruce Chatwin: from ‘On the Black Hill’
24. E.M. Forster: from ‘Howards End’
25. A.E. Housman: ‘Epilogue’
26. George Butterworth: ‘Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad’