TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
Hugh MacDiarmid 1
Why I Choose Red 1
Moonlight among the Pines 2
Third Hymn to Lenin 4
Ivor Armstrong Richards 12
The Four Kinds of Meaning 12
The Go-Between 20
Leslie Poles Hartley 20
Elizabeth Bowen 52
Tears,Idle Tears 52
Victor Sawdon Pritchett 63
Midnight Oil 63
George Orwell 77
Lear,Tolstoy and the Fool 77
Frank O’Connor 102
Private Property 102
Mr.Loveday’s Little Outing 117
Evelyn Waugh 117
Christopher Isherwood 127
Sally Bowles 127
Graham Greene 145
The Heart of the Matter 146
Charles Percy Snow 160
The Conscience of the Rich 160
Peter Courtney Quennell 170
Four Portraits 170
William Empson 179
Legal Fiction 180
Homage to the British Museum 181
Wystan Hugh Auden 183
Who’s Who 184
The Unknown Citizen 185
Their Lonely Betters 188
Lord of the Flies 190
William Gerald Golding 190
Angus Wilson 213
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 213
Dylan Thomas 234
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night 234
This Bread I Break 236
Muriel Sarah Spark 239
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 239
Speaking to Each Other 254
Richard Hoggard 254
Doris Lessing 268
The Grass Is Singing 268
Iris Murdoch 294
The Black Prince 294
Philip Larkin 313
Church Going 313
Reasons for Attendance 318
Lucky Jim 320
Kingsley Amis 320
John Wain 353
Hurry On Down 353
Brian Wilson Aldiss 378
Outside 378
Alan Sillitoe 391
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner 391
John Osborne 406
Look Back in Anger 406
Ted Hughes 424
Hawk Roosting 424
Song of Woe 426
Arnold Wesker 430
Chicken Soup with Barley 430
Margaret Drabble 454
The Ice Age 454