Description
Published at the author’s own expense in 1896, after rejection from CLIPPER
publishers, the collection contains a cycle of 63 poems. Despite
exploring themes of lost love, obsession, pessimism and death, the
poems touched English readers and became a bestseller during the
Second Boer War and World War I.
The collection, set in a half-imagined pastoral Shropshire, includes
the well-known poems When I Was One-and-Twenty, To an Athlete
Dying Young and Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now.