»A Shropshire Lad

One of my very favourite volumes of poetry, both for its compact and practical attitudes and for this edition, which fits neatly in my pocket -- any pocket. Housman is best known for To An Athlete Dying Young, When I Was One and Twenty, and the beautiful advice of LXII, "Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff":

And malt does more than Milton can

To justify God’s ways to man.

Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink

This is by way of explanation for the pile of empty bottles and growlers lying at the kerb, and for my not having read anything else these past few days.
UPDATE: The power of text search reminded me that I last read this collection just over a year ago, in concert with Stoppard's play The Invention of Love.