All Stories

  1. Acceptable Words
  2. ‘Acceptable words’
  3. Afterword: ‘“I have not finished”’
  4. ‘The speechless dead’: King Log (1968)
  5. Poet, lover, liar: ‘Lachrimae’ (1975)
  6. The Triumph of Love (1998)
  7. ‘Beauty is difficult’: Speech! Speech! (2000)
  8. ‘Our love is what we love to have’: Tenebrae (1978)
  9. Things and words: The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (1983)
  10. History as poetry: ‘Churchill's Funeral’ and ‘De Jure Belli ac Pacis’ (Canaan, 1996)
  11. ‘Here and there I pull a flower’: The Orchards of Syon (2002)
  12. ‘In wintry solstice like the shorten'd light’: Scenes from Comus (2005)