“‘Winter Surise’ was meant to be the first part of a long poem. I have added to it a first draft of the next section, including some of the broken lines to give an idea of what was forming in his mind.” [Cicely Binyon’s foreword to the booklet ]
“‘High over the battling Street’ was written when, on his journey back from Athens, he was held up by the mistral at Marseilles two days after the collapse of Holland.” [from Cicely Binyon’s foreword to the booklet ]
From the Foreword to : “There are two versions of the group. One appeared in Horizon in October 1942 under the title ‘The Ruins’: the other in The Atlantic Monthly in November 1942. It must have been sent to America some months earlier and the Horizon version copied from another manuscript, for when the copy …