Authors: Richard Adams
"The Witnesses," Copyright 1945 by W.H. Auden; reprinted from
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
, by W.H. Auden, by permission of Random House, Inc., and Faber and Faber Ltd.
The Ascent of F6
by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Copyright 1936, 1937 and renewed 1964 by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood; reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc., and Curtis Brown, Ltd.
"The Pilgrim," "Dame Hickory," and "Napoleon" by Walter de la Mare reprinted by permission of The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and The Society of Authors as their representative.
"Two Fusiliers" from
Fairies and Fusiliers
by Robert Graves, Copyright © 1917 by Robert Graves. All rights reserved; reprinted by permission of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc.
"Who's in the Next Room?" from
Collected Poems
of Thomas Hardy, Copyright 1925 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd., the Trustees of the Hardy Estate and Macmillan, London and Basingstoke.
"Hurt Hawks," Copyright 1928 and renewed 1956 by Robinson Jeffers, reprinted from
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
by permission of Random House, Inc.
"Fern Hill" from
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
, Copyright 1946 by New Directions Publishing Corporation, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., and the Trustees for the Copyrights of the late Dylan Thomas.
"A Woman Young and Old" from
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
, Copyright 1933 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1961 by Bertha Georgia Yeats; reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., M.B. Yeats and Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd.
Richard Adams
is the author of many bestselling novels, including
Watership Down
(1974),
Shardik
(1976),
The Plague Dogs
(1978),
The Girl in a Swing
(1980),
Maia
(1985), and
Traveller
(1988), as well as several works of nonfiction, including his autobiographical
The Day Gone By
(1991). He and his wife live in the south of England.