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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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A Shropshire Lad
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(1896)
Volume of 63 poems, some named and others only numbered, which A.E. *Housman published at his own expense in 1896. Hardly noticed at first, they became extremely popular during World War I when a deep chord was struck by their mood of poignancy for the transience of youth and of nature's beauties. They share a mood of lyric melancholy with *Gray's Elegy, a similarly accessible work which has had an equally powerful effect.
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