The passage from A Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man is reproduced by permission of Jonathan Cape Ltd.
and the Executors of the James Joyce Estate; “Phase
One” from “The Nabara” is reproduced from C. Day
Lewis, Collected Poems (1954) by permission of Jonathan Cape
Ltd., the Hogarth Press and the Executors of the Estate of C. Day
Lewis; the lines from Milton’s Paradise Lost are
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Everyman’s Library series by courtesy of J. M. Dent and Sons
Ltd.; “The Covenant” by Edwin Muir is reprinted by kind
permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. from The Collected Poems of
Edwin Muir; “Section VIII” from Wallace Stevens,
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction is reproduced by permission
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Stevens. We are indebted to Oxford University Press for
permission to reprint: “My Heart’s in the
Highlands” from Burns, Poems and Songs, ed. J.
Kinsley; “To Rosemounde” from Chaucer, Poetical
Works, ed. Skeat; Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge; “La
Belle Dame sans Merci” from Keats, Poetical Works, ed.
H. W. Garrod; the hexameter lines from “The Countesse of
Pembroke’s Arcadia” from the text of Sidney,
Poetical Works, ed. Ringler. Psalms 90 and 98 in the
Sidney-Pembroke translation are reproduced by courtesy of their
editor, Dr. Jonathan Rathmell; “On a Drop of Dew” is
reproduced in the text established by H. Macdonald in
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Routledge and Kegan Paul; the extract from W. R. Rodgers, Europa
and the Bull is reproduced by permission of Martin Secker and
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