publisher’s note

The publisher would like to thank Faber and Faber and the Estate of T. S. Eliot for permission to quote from T. S. Eliot’s essay The Sacred Wood; Faber and Faber for permission to quote from W. H. Auden’s Letters from Iceland; Weidenfeld & Nicholson and the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov for permission to quote from Pale Fire, and Henry Holt & Company and the Estate of Robert Frost for permission to quote from ‘Of a Winter Evening’ (later published as ‘Questioning Faces’).