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Sections of this book have appeared in New American Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review, the Listener, the Observer and Handbook for the Study of a Suicide, edited by Seymour Perlin. First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1971 Published in Penguin Books 1974
Copyright © A. Alvarez, 1971
The author and publishers are grateful to the copyright owners of the following works for their permission to quote from them: Ariel (published by Faber and Faber) and The Colossus (published by William Heinemann) by Sylvia Plath, Copyright © Ted Hughes 1965 and 1960; An Essay in Autobiography by Boris Pasternak, Collins Publishers; The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin, Copyright © The Marvell Press 1955, 1971; The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, Macmillan.
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