Contents

• Rescuing the human spirit
• Traces of tradition?
• Through satire to innocence
• Love, marriage and sexual lore
• Finding a voice for experience
• The challenge of energy
• Thinking allegorically, imaging symbolically
• ‘Vala’ and the fate of narrative epic
• ‘A slumber on the banks of the ocean’
• Fragmentary modes of epic
• Years of resentment, hints of paradox
• A persisting visionary
• Prophetic afterlife