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  Acknowledgments

  Here’s to those who put tempting things in my path as soon I mentioned I was working on this book, or introduced me to a poem in another context that came good here, or pointed me to a scholarly work I would have never found otherwise. For these gifts and favors I thank Heather Dyer, Anne Goldgar, Julia Copus, Wendy Monkhouse, Tina Pepler, Emma Crichton Miller, Jeremy Over, Joanne Limberg, Jude Cook, Michael Marmur, Nigel Warburton, Sally Davies, Scott Weightman, and Samantha Ellis.

  At Buscot Park in Oxfordshire, Roger Vlitos was welcoming and generous in sharing his enthusiasm for and knowledge of Edward Burne-Jones. It was a privilege to be allowed to see the paintings in situ and to hear juicy anecdotes about Burne-Jones’s life and work. At the Kode Galleries in Bergen, Sigurd Sandmo and Tove Hausbø went beyond the call of duty and enthusiastically dug into the archives on my behalf to unearth interesting notes and letters from the Nikolai Astrup papers (now being translated into English).

  Thank you to my fellow insomniacs for making the sleep clinic bearable; to Tina Pepler and Anna Barker, with whom I teach creative writing to academics—I hope they will approve my spinning of some of what we do into this book. Thank you to Brigid Hains: no one could wish for a more insightful and careful first reader. Thanks to Rebecca Carter and Emma Parry for championing this book from the get-go; to the inspirational Philip Gwyn Jones at Scribe and Pat Strachan at Catapult, who fully bought into my experiment, and to Sarah Braybrooke and Erin Kottke, publicity geniuses both.

  Permissions for reprinting poetry were granted from various quarters. I have quoted lines from Stephen Cushman’s poem “Make the Bed” with the kind permission of the author. The stanza from “Insomnia” by Marina Tsvetaeva that appears as an epigraph here was translated by Elaine Feinstein and appears in Bride of Ice (2009), copyright Elaine Feinstein. The lines are reprinted here with permission from Carcanet Press Limited, Manchester, U.K. The excerpt from “Crusoe in England” is from Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, copyright © 2011 by the Alice H. Methfessel Trust; Publisher’s Note and compilation copyright © 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The poem also appears in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, published by Chatto & Windus, reproduced by permission of the Random House Group, Ltd. © 2011.

  MARINA BENJAMIN is the author of three previous memoirs—Rocket Dreams, short-listed for the Eugene Emme Award; Last Days in Babylon, long-listed for the Wingate Prize; and The Middlepause, finalist for the Arts Foundation’s Creative Non-fiction Award. She is currently a senior editor at the digital magazine Aeon.

  Author illustration by Charlie Levy-Sands,

  child of the author