I have arranged these poems, not according to chronology but in what I hope is the most easily readable form. Nothing has been included from the two earliest pamphlets. I date my poetic appearance from the publication of and "A Private Country and " in 1943.Poems from the following volumes have been included: and "Poems and " edited by Oswell Blakeston (Fortune Press, 1938); and "A Private Country and " (Faber and Faber, 1943); and "Cities, Plains and People and " (Faber and Faber, 1946); and "On Seeming to Presume and " (Faber and Faber, 1948); and "Sappho: a play in verse and " (Faber and Faber, 1950); and "The Tree of Idleness and " (Faber and Faber, 1955); and and "Private Drafts and " (privately printed in Nicosia, Cyprus, 1955).L.D.