CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Part One

1  ‘Oh for the people who speak one’s own language’

2  ‘What? You too?’

3  Mythopoeia

4  ‘The sort of thing a man might say’

Part Two

1  C.W.

2  ‘A tremendous flow of words’

Part Three

1  ‘They are good for my mind’

2  ‘We had nothing to say to one another’

3  Thursday evenings

4  ‘A fox that isn’t there’

5  ‘Hwæt! we Inclinga’

Part Four

1  ‘No one turned up’

2  Till We Have Faces

Keep Reading

Appendices 

A  Biographical notes

           B  Bibliography

           C  Sources of quotations

           D  Acknowledgements

Notes

Index

About the Author

About the Publisher