Mid-career from the poet and novelist; beginning, from this distance, autobiographically, 'It was my father's habit, when my brother or I, after the age of ten, had done anything worthy of corporal punishment, to let at least one day elapse before inflicting it. During the interval, and generally on the afternoon of what we boys called 'pay-night', he would take us both, never singly, to the Guildhall Museum to stand five minutes before the old whipping-post from Newgate'; and dealing thematically with the presence of the dead among the living; dedicated to Hugh l'Anson Fausset, the English writer and critic.
