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I think the most likely source of this superstition lies not in poetry at all but in the extremely popular Ivor Novello song-- We'll gather lilacs in the spring again And walk together down an English lane And then our hearts will learn to sing again... the date of which, 1945, might suggest that even this is not some kind of middle-class country-cottage reverie. The refrain is "When you come home once more..." Pr On 8 Oct 2011, at 11:56, GOODBY JOHN wrote: I agree with Jamie, it is an eccentric judgement - as if desperate to prove that no poem that contains apple blossom and an 'English lane' could possibly be any good.