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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
A Shropshire Lad

(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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