| Editors’ Preface | 7 |
| I: Appreciations | |
| A People’s Historian Christopher Hill | 11 |
| A Rebel and His Lineage Raphael Samuel | 19 |
| II: The Matter of Britain | |
| The Matter of Britain | 25 |
| Shakespeare’s Historical Outlook | 54 |
| Francis Bacon—Philosopher of Nature | 73 |
| Utopia Yesterday and Today | 80 |
| The Leveller Style | 95 |
| The Everlasting Gospel | 106 |
| Genius on the Border | 147 |
| Parson Lot | 163 |
| The Conscience of John Ruskin | 171 |
| An Englishman Discovers India | 177 |
| T.S. Eliot—A Personal View | 183 |
| III: The Thirties and Wartime | |
| Poetry and Property in a Communist Society | 197 |
| Culture and Leisure | 205 |
| On the Nature of the Ballad | 208 |
| The Madness of Swift | 217 |
| Mr Crusoe and Mr Gulliver | 226 |
| Charles Churchill: The Bear with the Ragged Staff | 232 |
| The Last Puritan | 238 |
| E.M. Forster and the Classless Society | 244 |
| Promise of Victory: A Note on the Negro Spiritual | 252 |
| IV: Writings after 1945 | |
| Introduction to The City of the Sun | 257 |
| The Situation of Women in Shakespeare’s Time | 266 |
| The First Battle of Naseby | 272 |
| Pilgrim’s Progress | 275 |
| French Revolutionaries and English Democrats | 282 |
| Morris, Marx and Engels | 291 |
| A Vision Not A Dream | 304 |
| T.A. Jackson | 307 |
| Edgell Rickword and the Calendar of Modern Letters | 310 |
| A.L. Lloyd: A Personal Memoir | 313 |
| Communist Party History, 1927-1941 | 317 |
| How Glorious Was the Revolution? Ireland | 321 |
| V: Poems | |
| Blow, Blow ... | 325 |
| Numen Inest | 326 |
| A Meditation Upon Sorcery | 327 |
| Thin Dirge Appropriate to Sunset | 328 |
| ‘One Law for the Lion and the Ox…’ | 329 |
| Fascism | 330 |
| So I Became… | 331 |
| Exorcism | 333 |
| Limed Spirit | 334 |
| ‘And Then Came Spring…’ | 335 |
| Leave | 336 |
| Spring Morning | 337 |
| October 1942 | 339 |
| The Backward Lookers | 340 |
| Select Bibliography | 341 |
| Index | 343 |
SOURCE: Morton, A. L. (Arthur Leslie). History and the Imagination: Selected Writings of A. L. Morton, edited by Margot Heinemann and Willie Thompson. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1990. 352 pp.
Note: The rest of the poems not receiving individual web pages are grouped together.
RELATED OFFSITE SOURCES:
A. L. Morton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A L Morton - Compendium of Communist Biographies (Graham Stevenson)
Our History Digital Archive (Socialist History Society:
Shakespeare’s Idea of History by A. L. Morton (#33)
Leveller Democracy- Fact or Myth? by A. L. Morton (#51)
T. A. Jackson - Revolutionary and Working Class Intellectual: Centenary Appreciation 1879-1979 by Vivien Morton & Stuart Macintyre (#73)
Arthur Leslie Morton Archives - The Unz Review. Some articles by Morton on literature & culture:
The English Utopia by A. L. Morton
Rebels
and Their Causes: Essays in Honour of A. L. Morton
edited by Maurice Cornforth
“On the Jackson Trail” by Peter Osborne
“Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?” by Jonathan Rée
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