'The Oxford Book of Depressing Verse'

“Some day I shall compile an Oxford Book of Depressing Verse , which shall contain nothing but the most magnificent expressions of melancholy and despair.” I’ve never spent much time reading Aldous Huxley – Brave New World in junior-high school, Crome Yellow a little later, then, inevitably, The Doors of Perception, when it was a cult book for many of my generation. I remember almost nothing about…