Glancing at the titles of Catholic articles recently, my eye caught the intriguing title of one of them: Twenty Classic Poems Every Man Should Read. Wanting to discover the gaps in my education, I scanned the list. They were definitely of a robust type (the website, after all, is called “The Art of Manliness”) and I knew most of them already. They included Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade as well as his Ulysses; Invictus by WE Henley (which Sylvia Plath once quoted rather poignantly in a letter to her mother); Kipling’s If (one of the most popular poems in the English language); Horatius by Lord Macaulay, which Churchill once learnt by heart; and Ozymandios by Shelley.