Faber amp; Faber Ltd for the extract from 'La Figlia Che Piange' in Collected Poems igog-icfiz by T. S. Eliot;
Oxford University Press for the extract from 'austin, Alfred (1835-1913)' from the Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble (5th edition 1985);
Don Manley for the extract from the Chambers Crossword Manual (Chambers 1992);
Extract from Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell, published by Unwin Hyman;
Kate Champkin for the extract from The Sleeping Life of Aspem Williams by Peter Champkin;
Extract from A. E. Housman: Scholar and Poet by Norman Marlow, published by Routledge;
Faber amp; Faber Ltd for the extract from 'I Have Started to Say', Collected Poems by Philip Larkin;
Extract from Half Truths One and a Half Truths by Karl Kraus, published by Carcanet Press;
The University of Oxford for the extract from the Wytham Woods deed.
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Maps of Wytham Woods and Blenheim Park drawn by Graeme James.
Weather and rain have undone it again,And now you would never knowThere was once a road through the woodsBefore they planted the trees.It is underneath the coppice and heathAnd the thin anemones.Only the keeper seesThat, where the ring-dove broods,And the badgers roll at ease,There was once a road through the woods.