C Day-Lewis: A Life Book

Prologue     ix
Youth
Never of a Land Rightfully Ours     3
A Hostile Land to Spy     11
A Land of Milk and Honey     21
Black Frost of my Youth     29
Rip Van Winkle Forest     37
The Sunless Stream     45
Eldorados Close to Hand     55
The Thirties
The Tow-Haired Poet     65
Lust to Love     75
Farewell Adolescent Moon     83
Radiance from Ashes Arises     95
Make Your Choice     107
Terra Incognita     119
On a Tilting Deck     131
Dreams Dared Imagine     139
No Man's Land     149
Earth Shakes Beneath Us     161
At War
Where are the War Poets?     175
The Magic Answer     185
The Maturing Field     195
That It Should End So     205
Grinding Himself to Powder     215
Now Comes the Zero     223
In a Dream     233
A Kind of Peace
The Estate of Simple Being     245
Find our Balance     255
Self-Betrayal     263
Change of Address     273
Easing Away     283
Haunted by Darkness     293
Second Childhood     303
Old Captain Death     313
Epilogue     321
Notes     327
Bibliography     347
Acknowledgements     351
Index     353