From New Preface (April 15, 2024): "All the essays in The Grove of the Eumenides were written after 1982 when I wrote my first draft of a plot outline for my epic poem The Parliament of Poets. These essays constitute and record my background study, as it were, over a period of more than twenty years, leading up to their publication in 2007... The Grove of the Eumenides is the foundation upon which my epic poem is built." 2024...