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Where a giant walked

MY visit to the Quantocks () sparked many thoughts about poetry and landscape, among which , A. E. Housman’s famous collection of poems, features large. I often quote from it when I speak about beauty, drawing on the poignant stories of young men going to their deaths in the trenches of the First World War, a copy of in their breast pockets. Often

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