The Land of Lost Content (John Ireland)
The Land of Lost Content is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 192021 by John Ireland (18791962). It consists of settings of six poems by A. E. Housman from his 1896 collection "A Shropshire Lad". A typical performance takes about 11 minutes. The songs are, with Roman numerals from "A Shropshire Lad", and first lines where Housman did not title his poem: The title of the cycle is taken from Housman's poem "Into my heart an air that kills", XL in "A Shropshire Lad": The Land of Lost Content