Who used settings from Housman’s collections extensively?
Songwriters
Painters
Theatre directors
Movie producers
Answer
Songwriters, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, used settings from Housman’s collections extensively. Songs using poems from A Shropshire Lad were recorded by, among others, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, and Dean Martin. The composer Edward Elgar also set some of Housman’s poems to music.
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