The Dyers Hand and Other Essays

The Macmillan Company—for selections from Collected Poems of Marianne Moore. Copyright 1935, 1941, 1951 by Marianne Moore; —and The Macmillan Company of Canada and Mrs. W. B. Yeats for lines from "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" from Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats. Copyright 1928 by The Macmillan Company, copyright 1956 by Bertha Georgie Yeats;—for "The Scholars" from Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats. First published in Poetry in 1916. Copyright 1944 by Bertha Georgie Yeats;—and for "Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford" from Collected Poems of Edward Arlington Robinson. Copyright 1916 by The Macmillan Company, copyright 1944 by Ruth Nivison.

John Murray Ltd.—and Houghton Mifflin, Inc., for lines from "In Westminster Abbey" from Collected Poems of John Betjeman.

New Directions—for selections from Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West. Copyright 1933 by Nathanael West;—and for The Day of

the Locust by Nathanael West. Copyright 1939 by the Estate of Nathanael West.

Oxford University Press—for selection from Taliessin through Logres by Charles Williams.

Princeton University Press—for selection from Mimesis by Erich Auerbach. Copyright 1953 by Princeton University Press.

Schocken Books, Inc.—for selection from "The Burrow" from The Great Wall of China by Franz Kafka. Copyright 1936, 1937 by Heinr. Mercy Sohn, Prague; copyright 1946, 1948 by Schocken Books, Inc.;—and for selections from Tales of the Hasidim, by Martin Buber. Copyright, 1947, 1948, by Schocken Books, Inc.

Helen Thomas—for lines from "Home" by Edward Thomas.

The Viking Press, Inc.—and Laurence Pollinger Ltd. and the Estate of the late Mrs. Frieda Lawrence for selections from Col­lected Poems of D. H. Lawrence. Copyright 1929 by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith and 1957 by Frieda Lawrence Ravagli; for selections from Bird, Beasts, and Flowers by D. H. Lawrence. Copy­right 1923 by Thomas Seltzer, Inc. and 1951 by Frieda Lawrence; and for selections from Last Poems by D. H. Lawrence. Copyright 1933 by Frieda Lawrence.

The Estate of Nathanael West—for selections from the works of Nathanael West.

For

NEVILL COGHILL

Three grateful memories:

a home full of books, a childhood spent in country provinces, a tutor in whom one could confide.

We have Art in order that we may not perish from Truth

f. w. nietzsche

FOREWORD

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by- practicing it. All the poems I have written were written for love; naturally, when I have written one, I try to market it, but the prospect of a market played no role in its writing.