This section collects together discussions of writers and writing.
Where essays have been previously published, the relevant magazine is acknowledged.
The section on Richard Hughes contains an Introduction and five essays.
Novelists
Thomas Harris and Hannibal Lecter
Richard Hughes
Vladimir Nabokov's Enchanter
Philip Pullman and the Republic of Heaven
Poets
George Barker
Idris Davies: the Bitter Dreamer
Alun Lewis and Keith Douglas: Soldier Poets
John Ormond and Wallace Stevens: Harmonious Sceptics
Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
C. H. Sisson
Dylan Thomas's Double Vision
R. S. Thomas as Religious Poet
Miscellany
Poetry and Death
Shelley as Symbolist
T. S. Eliot and Tennyson