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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Journey of the Magi
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Probably the most widely known short poem by T.S. *Eliot, published in his Collected Poems of 1936. One of the three kings remembers, years later, the difficult journey to Bethlehem at dead of winter, with the camels sore-footed and refractory. They found the place just in time: 'it was (you may say) satisfactory'. But then he wonders whether he went all that way for a birth or a death. He witnessed a birth; but with it an old world died in him, painfully, and now all he longs for is another death.
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