Contents Introduction

Acknowledgements

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Longer Poems, Sequences, and Narrative Works

An Essay on Censorship

Belli’s Blasphemous Bible

Moses

Poems Written for St Winefred’s Well

The Pet Beast

Signs (Dogs of Peace)

‘Augustine and Pelagius’

The Princely Progress

Five Revolutionary Sonnets

To Vladimir Nabokov On His 70th Birthday

The Sword

O Lord, O Ford, God Help Us, Also You

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Personal Verse, Vignettes, and Other Short Work 339 Words for Music 411 Endnotes 457 Sources and Further Reading 491 Alphabetical List of Titles or First Lines 495

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