Short prose including articles, lectures, prefaces, epilogues etc. on people and themes including W.H. Auden, the Thirties, the Spanish Civil War, Leonard Woolf, Edward Upward, Leonard Bernstein, William Coldstream, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, biography, translation, Christopher Isherwood, Francis Bacon, Salman Rushdie, Geoffrey Marne, etc. Includes some covering letters and one typescript poem ( First of May by Gregory Woods, 1988) with some Spender prose on the verso. [Contents split into Prose 84a and Prose 85b.]