Abbreviations Foreword by Peter Nichols Acknowledgements Introduction: The 'Ludicrous' Text of Peter Ackroyd 'A Tiny Light/Seen in the Mind's Eye as a Phoneme': The Poetry 'A Bit of a Game': The Styles of Peter Ackroyd I: The Great Fire of London, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, Hawksmoor 'A Bit of a Game': The Styles of Peter Ackroyd II: Chatterton, English Music, First Light, Milton in America 'Endless Variety': Writing the City in the Biographies,...