WOOL-GATHERER 23
'Resisting everything except temptation': devils visiting the Earth. (see Extracts page)
'Every home should have one'; phonographs and gramophones in literature.
'Mad as the proverbial': Eliot's early unpublished poetry. (see Extracts page)
'Seek and ye might find (alas): children's parties, delightful and nightmarish.
'Charming the birds from the trees': more modern versions of Orpheus and Eurydice.
'If 'Ifs' and 'Ands' ': topsy-turvy suppositions by e.e. cummings and others.
'How many eggs in the pudding?': can imagery become excessive - Judy Corbet's 'Envy'.
'Are there cucumber sandwiches in Heaven?': Praxilla defended by Michael Longley from the charge of bathos.
'Flete canem': classical canine epitaphs. | 
