Efforts have been made to contact every copyright holder for material contained in this book. If any owner has been inadvertently overlooked, the publisher would be glad to hear from them and make good in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention. Permission to quote from material still under copyright has been granted by the following:
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“Verses written during the Second World War,” by Hugh MacDiarmid, from Complete Poems, vol. 1 (1994), by kind permission of Carcanet Press Ltd.
“Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” from PERSONAE © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by kind permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop, by kind permission of the Sayle Literary Agency.
“Simplify Me When I’m Dead,” taken from The Complete Poems © Estate of Keith Douglas and reprinted by kind permission of Professor Desmond Graham and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
“Little Gidding” and The Waste Land, taken from The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot © Estate of T. S. Eliot and reprinted by kind permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
“MCMXIV,” taken from Collected Poems © Estate of Philip Larkin and reprinted by kind permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
“Last Post” taken from Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees © Carol Ann Duffy 2011. Reproduced by kind permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London.