 Introduction Preface Chapter 1. The energies and the inner world Chapter 2. Starting the journey Chapter 3. The Perfectibility of Man |
 Cave Birds Chapter 4. An Alchemical Cave Drama Chapter 5. Stage One of the Alchemical Synthesis: Calcination, Mortification, Putrefaction, Nigredo. Chapter 6. Stage Two of the Alchemical Synthesis: The Leukosis. Chapter 7. Stage Three of the Alchemical Synthesis: Solution and Distillation: Sulphur. Chapter 8. Stage Four of the Alchemical Synthesis: Conjunction, Crystallisaation, Projection. Appendix. Notes on the origin, performance and publication of Cave Birds Table 2. The titles and order of poems in the published edition of Cave Birds (Faber 1978) and in the two lists among the drafts held by Exeter University. |
 Remains of Elmet Chapter 9. ‘The fallen sun’… Chapter 10. ‘… Where the Mothers’ Chapter 11. ‘…at the dead end of a wrong direction’ Chapter 12. ‘Before these chimneys can rise again’… Chapter 13. ‘I swallowed an alarm clock’ |
 River Chapter 14. ‘The liturgy of the earth's tidings’ Conclusion. Variant Editions. Abbreviations used in the text. |
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