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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Maud
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(1855) Poem by *Tennyson, telling in a wide variety of verse-forms the ups and downs of the narrator's life; down into family destitution after his father's death; up again through love of Maud; down into madness after killing Maud's brother in a duel; and finally up in a somewhat misplaced outburst of patriotism over the *Crimean War, seen as an antidote to Britain's materialism. The stanzas beginning *'Come into the garden, Maud' became famous as a song.
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