==="As for the title - people who think they are cleverer than you tell us that A Shropshire Lad is a poem by A.E.Houseman. That isn't actually true. Houseman's work "A Shropshire Lad" is the name of a collection of poems, some of which have titles, but most are simply numbered by their place in the sequence." Geoff the Duck===

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Absolutely right, GtD last Nov. But if you are going to be so superior about 'people who think they are cleverer than you', you had better be accurate yourself. The 1896 poetry collection A Shopshire Lad was by A E Housman 1859-1936 (NOT 'Houseman'). He was, btw, a Cambridge classical academic who had probably never visited Shropshire until after the collection was published. He had failed his Oxford degree due to an unhappy homosexual undergraduate affair, but continued to write on classical subjects and acquired enough reputation to be appointed a Professor of Greek at London University, subsequently proceeding to Cambridge, where he spent the rest of his life.