[Nigel Mace]

It was such an impressive occasion, Gregory, and it was lit up by his personal sense of immersion in the Greek world and, as I've reread so much of his stuff this week, the fluency with which he connected and reconnected that with contemporary concerns, personal and public, and with his own roots.
A great talent and a most engaging man.

Initial Illuminations is indeed one of the very best of his war poems (an admittedly otherwise uneven category) and in my Penguin edition it's preceded by the complex and moving The Mother Of The Muses - for which I can't, at the moment, find a full text on the net to which to provide a link!