Contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Acknowledgements
4. Author’s Note
5. Prelude A Biography of Sorts
    
6. 1 The Prisoner and the Prodigy
7. 2 Songs for Marie
8. 3 Up at the Villa
9. 4 New Rules, Old Morals
10. 5 Mallarmé and Maeterlinck
11. 6 Bilitis and Other Women
12. 7 Lilly versus the Piano
13. 8 Taking to the Water
14. 9 Images in Name as well as Fact
15. 10 A Crumbling House and a Sunken Cathedral
16. 11 Theatres of the Body and the Mind
17. 12 War in Black and White
18. 13 Indian Summer, Stygian Winter
19. 14 What the Modern Made of Him
     
20. Notes
21. Select Bibliography
22. Illustrations
23. Index
24. Plates
25. About the Author
26. Also by the Author
27. Copyright