![]() ![]() His range was considerable, and many of his historical novels invoke a fantasy glamour of presentation and significance without exactly departing the mundane. Within a few years, however, as signalled by I Cannot Go Hunting Tomorrow: Short Stories (coll 1946), Treece had begun to shift into prose, and it was with stories, novels and plays – some for children – that he came into his own. "Princes of the Twilight" (in The Haunted Garden coll 1947 chap) and The Tragedy of Tristram (broadcast 1950 in The Exiles coll 1952 coll), are Arthurian. Treece's early poems, beginning with many of those assembled as Invitation and Warning (coll 1942 chap), were duly Celtic in tone but with considerable bite, including The Magic Wood (in The Black Seasons coll 1945 chap 1992 chap) the posthumous version was released with a set of illuminating illustrations by Barry Moser (1940- ) in which the poem's Time in Faerie implications are made explicit. His own nonfiction take on the movement, published soon after it dissolved, How I See Apocalypse ( 1946), was moderately assertive. ![]() ![]() (1911-1966) UK editor, poet and author, active from the early 1930s a founder in 1939, under the influence of Herbert Read, of the New Apocalypse group of writers loosely committed to abstractly sacramental takes on the Matter of Britain, in terms of a mythopoetics which might be described as emotionally holistic, but muggy. ![]()
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