Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Editors of Punch, The London Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, The Saturday Book, The Cornhill, The Atlantic Monthly, Encounter, The Observer, Vogue, Weekend Telegraph and The Philbeach Quarterly. “The Harvest Hymn” was published as a letter in Farmers Weekly.

The author is grateful to his friends John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, Lord Birkenhead and Thomas Edward Neil Driberg. The first made and introduced the original selection for Selected Poems; the second advised on the first edition of Collected Poems; and the third corrected grammar and punctuation, and changed some lines for the better.

Additional Acknowledgements for UK 4th Edition

The author is grateful to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales for his gracious permission to print ‘A Ballad of the Investiture’ and to the late Thomas Edward Neil Driberg again for his consistent encouragement and constructive help. He thanks the editors of The Architect, The Cornhill Magazine, Encounter, The London Magazine, The Saturday Book and The Sunday Express, where some of the poems were first published.