News at Eleven: For [Sylvia Townsend] Warner, the collection

was clearly a creative act; it seems to have signalled both a release of the self and a commitment to communality, a ghost at home on the earth at last:

Greet finally the earth, greet leaf and root and stock.
Stand in your last hour poised, like the dandelion clock--
Frail ghost of the gaudy raggle-taggle that you were--
Stand up, O homing phantom, stand up intact and declare
The goodness of earth the greatest good you found,
Ere the wind jolts you, and you vanish like the foam.
("Go the long way, the long way home")

[Frances] Bingham claims that "to read the collection in its entirety now is valuable not only for period context, but because it reveals correspondences in the two poets' work".

from The Times Literary Supplement: Sylvia Townsend Warner, ghost writer

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