Preoccupations. Selected Prose 1968-1978. London: Faber, 1980. First Edition. Pp, 224. Neat ownership name to front free endpaper. A very good copy.

Signed, presentation copy (dated 1982) Inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper.

The first collection of prose published by the author, with essays on Yeats, Wordsworth, Hopkins, Patrick Kavanagh and others, providing fresh insight into their poetry.