Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on This Edition

Foreword to the 2004 Edition (Muriel Spark)

A Tour of London

(c. 1950–51) The Dark Music of the Rue du Cherche-Midi

(2000) The Yellow Book

(c. 1951) What?

(2002) Verlaine Villanelle

(c. 1950) Edinburgh Villanelle

(c. 1950) Holy Water Rondel

(c. 1951) The Creative Writing Class

(2003) Authors’ Ghosts

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